Frontcover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Peaceful Voyages; 2 Ordinary Citizens, High Culture, and the Salvation of the City; 3 Arche and the Anger of the Ordinary Citizen; 4 Elite Domination and the Clever Citizen; 5 Fantasy, Irony, and Economic Justice; Conclusion: Democratic Possibilities; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Backcover
Summary
Democracy challenges ordinary citizens, calling upon them both to resist institutionalized rule as a potential gateway to elite domination and, at the same time, to work towards responsible collective action. This book locates in Aristophanes' comedies a complex comic disposition appropriate to this fundamental challenge of ordinary citizenship
