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In Aristophanes' Male and Female Revolutions author Kenneth M. De Luca offers a detailed study of two of Aristophanes' plays and reveals how each illuminates the other and the question of the rule of law through the lens of democracy. De Luca uses classical thought to clarify contemporary and foundational issues in political theory.

Kenneth M. De Luca is Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hampden-Sydney College.

Acknowledgements

ix

Introduction

xi

Part I: On the Knights

Chapter One Paphlagon: Democracy's Tragic Tendency

3

(12)

Chapter Two Demosthenes' Comic Plan

15

(14)

Chapter Three The Deposing of Zeus

29

(12)

Chapter Four The End of Demos' Democratization

41

(20)

Chapter Five The Final Victory of Pleasure

61

(8)

Part II: On the Assemblywomen

Introduction

69

(4)

Chapter Six Praxagora's Lamp

73

(4)

Chapter Seven Praxagora's Political Philosophy: A Study of Her Rehearsal Speech

77

(14)

Chapter Eight The Price of Unity

91

(8)

Chapter Nine Praxagora's City of Pigs: The Hag Scene

99

(14)

Chapter Ten The Political Allegory of the Assemblywomen

113

(12)

Conclusion On the Knights and the Assemblywomen

125

(8)

Bibliography

133

(6)

Index

139

(4)

About the Author

143

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Aristophanes' Male and Female Revolutions A Reading of Aristophanes' Knights and Assemblywomen

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