ARISTOPHANES
the reading room — every file of the seat, direct
| file | kind | size |
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| MANIFEST.sha256 | sha256 | 2 KB |
| source.json | data (JSON) | 2 KB |
| original/tlg0019.tlg001.xml | XML | 289 KB |
| original/tlg0019.tlg002.xml | XML | 256 KB |
| original/tlg0019.tlg003.xml | XML | 281 KB |
| original/tlg0019.tlg004.xml | XML | 364 KB |
| original/tlg0019.tlg005.xml | XML | 246 KB |
| original/tlg0019.tlg006.xml | XML | 327 KB |
| original/tlg0019.tlg007.xml | XML | 244 KB |
| original/tlg0019.tlg008.xml | XML | 231 KB |
| original/tlg0019.tlg009.xml | XML | 304 KB |
| original/tlg0019.tlg010.xml | XML | 288 KB |
| original/tlg0019.tlg011.xml | XML | 309 KB |
| text/tlg001-Acharnians.txt | text | 95 KB |
| text/tlg002-Knights.txt | text | 115 KB |
| text/tlg003-Clouds.txt | text | 126 KB |
| text/tlg004-Wasps.txt | text | 126 KB |
| text/tlg005-Peace.txt | text | 104 KB |
| text/tlg006-Birds.txt | text | 139 KB |
| text/tlg007-Lysistrata.txt | text | 104 KB |
| text/tlg008-Thesmophoriazusae.txt | text | 94 KB |
| text/tlg009-Frogs.txt | text | 120 KB |
| text/tlg010-Ecclesiazusae.txt | text | 98 KB |
| text/tlg011-Wealth.txt | text | 103 KB |
provenance
edition · Aristophanes, Comoediae, Perseus Greek editions (tlg0019)
license · CC BY-SA (Perseus); underlying editions public domain
origin · PerseusDL/canonical-greekLit @ a065c359aab3
why seated · Aristophanes is the second edge-figure candidate and the archive's strongest documented case that authorial identity was obscurable in this exact period and circle. His first three plays were produced under other men's names, he describes the practice himself at Wasps 1017-22, and he continued it after establishing his own — so the civic record carries the producer rather than the poet, and a contemporary prosecution could not fix which man authored the Babylonians. He also stages Chaerephon, and the Suda's entry on Chaerephon is sourced from the scholia to Clouds 144, which places the biographical record downstream of the comic text.