Aristophanes: Acharnians (Text and Commentary)

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by  Aristophanes

A R I S T O P H A N ES
A C H A R N I A NS
EDITED WITH
INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY
BY
S. DOUGLAS OLSON
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Aristophanes
Ac ham tans / Aristophanes; edited with introduction and commentary
by S. Douglas Olson
p. cm.
Text in Greek; commentaries in English.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
1. Greece—History—Pcloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.—Drama.
2. Peasantry. Drama. I. Olson, S. Douglas. II. Title.
PA3875 .A6 2002
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CONTENTS
ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY XUi
INTRODUCTION
I Aristophanes xxvii
II Historical Background xxxi
III Kleon, Babylonians, and the Political Argument
of the Play xl
IV Mythological and Literary Background Hi
V Division of Parts, Costume and Props, and Staging Ixiii
VI Dialects Ixx
VII The Text lxxv
METRICAL SYMBOLS C
SIGLA CI
HYPOTHESES I
DRAMATIS PERSONAE 5
TEXT 7
COMMENTARY 61
ADDENDA TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION 366
GREEK INDEX 367
GENERAL INDEX
ABBREVIATIONS AND
BIBLIOGRAPHY
I abbreviate the names of ancient authors as in LSJ, except that I
use Ή/ for Homer and 'Bacch.' for Bacchylides. My numbering
of fragments follows Bernabe for epic; PMGF for Alkman,
Stesichoros, and Ibykos; PMG's continuous numbering for other
lyric poets; Voigt for Sappho and Alkaios; IEG2 for elegy and iam-
bos except Hipponax, for whom I cite Degani; Maehler for Pindar
and Bacchylides; Diels-Kranz10 for the Presocratic philosophers;
TrGF for Aeschylus, Sophocles, and minor or unidentified tragic
poets; Nauck* for Euripides, except where indicated otherwise;
Kaibel for Epicharmos, Sophron and Rhinthon; PCG for all other
comic poets, including fragmenta adespota; Olson-Sens for
Archestratos and Matro; Rose3 for Aristotle; Wehrli for other rep­
resentatives of Aristotle's school; Fortenbaugh for Theophrastos;
Pfeiffer for Callimachus; Gow for Macho; and CA and SH for
other late classical and Hellenistic poets. For epigrams, I give
equivalent numbers in HE, GPh or FGE wherever possible. I cite
t
Aesop from the edition of Perry; Erotian from Nachmanson; the
Et.Gud. from Sturz; the EM from Gaisford; the Ep.Hom. from
Dyck; Galen from Kuhn; Gregory of Corinth from Schaefer;
Harpokration from Keaney; Hippocrates from Littre; Hesychius
α-o from Latte; Hesychius rr-ω from Schmidt; Menander's sub­
stantially preserved plays from Sandbach; Moeris from Hansen;
Orion from Sturz; Oros from Alpers; the parcemiographers from
Leutsch-Schneidewin; Photios α-μ from Theodoridis; Photios ν-ω
from Porson; Phrynichus' Ekloge from Fischer; Phrynichus'
Praeparatio Sophistica from de Borries; Pollux from Bethe;
Stephanos of Byzantion from Meineke; and the Suda from Adler.
I have Hellenized all but a handful of names, mostly of poets, and
thus print 'Kratinos' rather than 'Cratinus' but Aeschylus' rather
than 'Aischylos'; complete consistency in this regard seems to me
unnecessary and perhaps not even desirable.
I refer to editions of Acharnians and commentaries on it, as well as
to standard commentaries on other ancient texts, by the editor's or
XIV ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
commentator's name only. I have made use of commentaries on
Achamians by P. Elmsley (1830), A. Mueller (1863), W. Ribbeck
(1864), F. H. M. Blaydes (1887), W. C. Green (1892), W. W.
Merry (1901), J. van Leeuwen (1901), C. E. Graves (1905), W. J. M.
Starkie (1909), W. Rennie (1909), B, B. Rogers (1910), R. T.
Elliott (1914), C. F. Russo (1953), G. Mastromarco (1983), and
A. H. Sommerstein (1980).
I abbreviate periodicals as in L*Annie philologique, except that I
use KAJF instead of KAJPh\ 'CF instead of *CPh\ 'HSCF
instead of *HSCPh\ ΎΑΡΑ' instead of *TAPhA\ and 'YCS'
instead of * YCIS\ I refer to the following books and articles by the
author's or editor's last name or abbreviated name only, with a date
or abbreviated title added where ambiguity is possible, or simply
by an abbreviated title:
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Democracy (Oxbow Monographs 37: Oxford,
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Stage (London, 1994; orig. pub. in Italian in
1962)
Amyx D. A. Amyx, 'The Attic Stelai: Part ΙΙΓ,
Hesperia 27 (1958) 163-310
Anderson J. K. Anderson, Military Theory and
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and Los Angeles, 1970)
Athenian Religion R. Parker, Athenian Religion: A History
(Oxford, 1996)
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Greek Poetry and Life (Festschrift Gilbert
Murray: Oxford, 1936) 231-40
Bain D. Bain, Actors and Audience: A Study of
Asides and Related Conventions in Greek
Drama (Oxford, 1977)
Beavis I. C. Beavis, Insects and Other Invertebrates
in Classical Antiquity (Exeter, 1988)
Bechtel F. Bechtel, Die Gnechischen Dialekte (3 vols.:
Berlin, 1921-4)
ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY XV
Beobachtungen E. Fraenkel, Beobachtungen zu Aristophanes
(Rome, 1962)
Bers V. Bers, Greek Poetic Syntax in the Classical
Age (Yale Classical Monographs 5: New
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der Getverbe und Kiinste bei Griechen und
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The Lawcourts at Athens (Princeton, 1995)
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CA see Powell
Camp J. M. Camp, The Athenian Agora (New
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Cary E. Cary, 'The Manuscript Tradition of the
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P. A. Hansen (ed.)» Carmina Epigraphica
CEG
Graeca (Texte und Kommentare, Band 12:
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C. Austin (ed.), Comicorum Graecorum
CGFPR
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J. Chadwick, Lexicographica Graeca:
Chadwick
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XVI ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Colvin S. Colvin, Dialect in Aristophanes and the
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Crows D. Goodwin, Crows of the World1 (Bury St
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DAA A. E. Raubitschek, Dedications from the
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ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY XVli
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YCS 26 (1980) 1-41
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