Pericles' decree censoring comedy
| dc.contributor.author | Rigsby, KJ | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-26T14:05:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-07-26T14:05:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-09-01 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2021-07-26T14:05:34Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0360-5949 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1533-0699 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | ||
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Project Muse | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Transactions of the American Philological Association | |
| dc.relation.isversionof | 10.1353/apa.2020.0011 | |
| dc.subject | Pericles | |
| dc.subject | comedy | |
| dc.subject | Athenian democracy | |
| dc.subject | siege of Samos | |
| dc.subject | free speech | |
| dc.title | Pericles' decree censoring comedy | |
| dc.type | Journal article | |
| pubs.begin-page | 287 | |
| pubs.end-page | 297 | |
| pubs.issue | 2 | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Trinity College of Arts & Sciences | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Classical Studies | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Duke | |
| pubs.publication-status | Published | |
| pubs.volume | 150 |