The tyrant’s mortar: reification, voracity and international agency in Aristophanes’ Peace (vv. 236-300)
From a theoretical perspective interested in the functionality of material culture and its implications for the understanding of Greek comedy, this article will analyze, in Peace (421 B.C.E.), the episode of War’s entrance and the description of his culinary preparations towards the end of the play&...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2024 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) |
| Repositório: | Argumentos : Revista de Filosofia (Online) |
| Idioma: | português |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufc:article/93223 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://periodicos.ufc.br/argumentos/article/view/93223 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Aristophanes Peace material culture political agency war Aristófanes. Paz. Cultura material. Agencia política. Guerra. Aristophanes. Peace. Material culture. Political agency. War. |
| Resumo: | From a theoretical perspective interested in the functionality of material culture and its implications for the understanding of Greek comedy, this article will analyze, in Peace (421 B.C.E.), the episode of War’s entrance and the description of his culinary preparations towards the end of the play's prologue (vv. 236-300). War (Polemos), represented here as a Panhellenic tyrant capable of exerting force over the objects around him, replaces in its personification the divine agency and is opposed in these verses to the passive description of the cities as mere ingredients of a sauce recipe he intends to eat. Ironically, the play will show that reification ends up functioning as a triggering instance of political subjectivity at the international level. |
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