Pericles' decree censoring comedy
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2020-09-01
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The claim that Pericles in 440 sponsored a decree restraining comedy because of the genre's offensiveness should be rejected. The claim depends on the scholium to Ar. Ach. 67; this paper argues that the alleged decree was the scholiast's deduction from a victor list that showed three non-performance years in a festival. These are better explained as a suspension in only one of the two dramatic festivals, occasioned not by hostility to freedom of speech but perhaps by limited resources caused by the siege of Samos.
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Rigsby, KJ (2020). Pericles' decree censoring comedy. Transactions of the American Philological Association, 150(2). pp. 287–297. 10.1353/apa.2020.0011 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/23465.
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Kent J. Rigsby
Hellenistic world, Roman Empire; religion, historical geography; epigraphy, numismatics
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