Aristophanes and the Current Moment

Constanze Güthenke is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Oxford, UK.Samuel Gartland is Associate Professor in Ancient Greek History and Culture at the University of Leeds, UK.

• List of Contributors1. Aristophanes’ Current Moments: An Introduction (Samuel Gartland, University of Leeds, UK and Constanze Güthenke, University of Oxford, UK)2. Reading Leo Strauss Reading Aristophanes (Constanze Güthenke, University of Oxford, UK)3. War, Territory, Sexual Violence, and Citizenship in Aristophanes (Samuel Gartland, University of Leeds, UK)4. The Crook and the Sycophant: Aristophanes, Hate Speech, and Power (Amy Coker, Cheltenham Ladies’ College, UK)5. Freedom of Speech and Moral Panic in Democratic Athens (Isabel Ruffell, University of Glasgow, UK)6. Ponera orge: the Problem of ‘Anger’ in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and its Reception (Jon Hesk, University of St Andrews, UK)7. Aristophanes and the Gendered Politics of Performative Assembly (Carol Atack, University of Cambridge, UK)8. Batracho-Politics for 2024 (Mario Telò, UC Berkeley, USA)9. Peace and Shit: Aristophanes as Primer on Copropolitics (Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton University, USA)Index

The contributors to this bold collection dare to take Aristophanes beyond his moment into theirs to consider the politics of reading (and laughing) with him now, issuing a challenge to us all that dealing with Aristophanes at this moment demands a response beyond the disconcerting glosses of complicitous commentators