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Aristophanes [Comicus] --- Greek drama (Comedy) --- -Political plays, Greek --- -Politics and literature --- -Literature --- Literature and politics --- Literature --- Greek political plays --- Greek drama --- History and criticism --- Political aspects --- Aristophanes --- -Pericles --- -Political and social views --- In literature --- Athens (Greece) --- -Politics and government --- Political plays, Greek --- Politics and literature --- Political and social views. --- History and criticism. --- -History and criticism --- Political and social views --- Pericles, --- Pericle, --- Perikl, --- Perikles, --- Perykles, --- In literature. --- Politics and government.

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Literary historians have long held the view that the plays of the Greek dramatist, Sophocles deal purely with archetypes of the heroic past and that any resemblance to contemporary events or individuals is purely coincidental. In this book Michael Vickers challenges this view and argues that Sophocles makes regular and extensive allusion to Athenian politics in his plays, especially to Alcibiades, one of the most controversial Athenian politicians of his day. Vickers shows that Sophocles was no closeted intellectual but a man deeply involved in politics and he reminds us that Athenian politics was intensely personal. He argues cogently that classical writers employed hidden meanings and that consciously or sub-consciously, Sophocles was projecting onto his plays hints of contemporary events or incidents, mostly of a political nature, hoping that his audience’s passion for politics would enhance the popularity of his plays.

Politics in literature. --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Greek literature --- Political science in literature --- History and criticism. --- Alcibiades --- Sophocles --- Sophocle --- Sófocles --- Sofoklis --- Sofokl --- Sūfūklīs --- Sofokles --- Sūtmūklīs --- Sofocle --- Sophokles --- Sofokŭl --- סופוקלס --- سوفوكليس --- Σοφοκλῆς --- Alkibiades --- Alcibiade --- Alkibiad --- In literature. --- Characters --- Alcibiades. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Athens (Greece) --- Aḟiny (Greece) --- Atene (Greece) --- Atʻēnkʻ (Greece) --- Ateny (Greece) --- Athen (Greece) --- Athēna (Greece) --- Athēnai (Greece) --- Athènes (Greece) --- Athinai (Greece) --- Athīnā (Greece) --- Αθήνα (Greece) --- Sophoclis --- Characters.

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Since the eighteenth century, classical scholars have generally agreed that the Greek playwright Aristophanes did not as a matter of course write "political" plays. Yet, according to an anonymous Life of Aristophanes, when Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse wanted to know about the government of Athens, Plato sent him a copy of Aristophanes' Clouds. In this boldly revisionist work, Michael Vickers convincingly argues that in his earlier plays, Aristophanes in fact commented on the day-to-day political concerns of Athenians. Vickers reads the first six of Aristophanes' eleven extant plays in a way that reveals the principal characters to be based in large part on Pericles and his ward Alcibiades. According to Vickers, the plays of Aristophanes—far from being nonpolitical—actually allow us to gauge the reaction of the Athenian public to the events that followed Pericles' death in 429 B.C., to the struggle for the political succession, and to the problems presented by Alcibiades' emergence as one of the most powerful figures in the state. This view of Aristophanes reaffirms the central role of allegory in his work and challenges all students of ancient Greece to rethink long-held assumptions about this important playwright.

Aristophanes --- Greek drama (Comedy) --- Political plays, Greek --- Politics and literature --- Political and social views. --- History and criticism. --- Pericles, --- In literature. --- Athens (Greece) --- Politics and government.

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Wonders Lost and Found: A celebration of the archaeological work of Professor Michael Vickers comprises, in all, twenty-one contributions, all on archaeological themes, written by friends and colleagues of Professor Michael Vickers, commemorating his contribution to archaeology. The contributions, reflecting the wide interests of Professor Vickers, range chronologically from the Aegean Bronze Age, to the use made of archaeology by dictators of the 19th and 20th centuries. Seven contributions are related to the archaeology of Georgia, where the Professor has worked most recently, and has made his home.

Archaeology --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- E-books --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- England --- Georgia (Republic) --- Archaeology.

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Goldwork, Ancient --- Pottery, Ancient --- Silverwork, Ancient --- Congresses. --- Congresses. --- Congresses.