Political Theory of Aristophanes

Jeremy J. Mhire is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Louisiana Tech University. Bryan-Paul Frost is James A. and Kaye L. Crocker Endowed Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the coeditor (with Jeffrey Sikkenga) of History of American Political Thought.

• IntroductionBryan-Paul FrostPart I 1. Seeing Democracy in the CloudsJohn Lombardini2. The Meaning of Socrates’ Asceticism in Aristophanes’ CloudsKhalil M. Habib3. Rethinking the Quarrel Anew: Politics and Boasting in Aristophanes’ CloudsJeremy J. MhirePart II 4. Persuasion in Comedy and Comic Persuasion: Aristophanes and the Mysteries of RhetoricJohn Zimmerman5. Boundaries: The Comic Poet Confronts the "Who" of Political ActionArlene W. Saxonhouse6. Aristophanes and the PolisStephanie Nelson7. On the Anabasis of Trygaeus: An Introduction to Aristophanes’ PeaceWayne Ambler8. Aristophanes’ Herodotean Inquiry: the Meaning of Athenian Imperialism in the BirdsKenneth DeLuca9. Learning the Lesson of Dionysus: Aristophanes’ Tragicomic Wisdom and Poetic Politics in the FrogsChristopher Baldwin10. Wealth and the Theology of CharityPaul W. LudwigPart III 11. Anger in Thucydides and Aristophanes: The Case of CleonTimothy W. Burns12. The Comedy of the Just City: Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen and Plato’s RepublicPeter Nichols13. Peisetairos of Aristophanes’ Birds and the Erotic Tyrant of Republic IXMatthew Meyer14. Aristophanes’ Feminine Comedies and Socratic Political ScienceAmy L. BonnettePart IV 15. Leo Strauss’s UnSocratic Aristophanes?Devin StaufferAbout the AuthorsIndex

"…this book is an innovative, significant contribution to Aristophanic studies. The editors deserve praise for assembling a varied group of notable political theorists and classical scholars who mine Aristophanes' work with significant skill and patience." — Polis