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History as lunch: Aristophanes, Knights 810–19

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

John Marr
John Marr
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University of Exeter
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In this passage the Sausage-Seller is commenting disparagingly on the boast of Paphlagon/Cleon that he has done far more good for Athens (‘the city’) than Themistocles ever did. In lines 814–16 the Sausage-Seller seems to allude to certain laudable actions on the part of Themistocles, which greatly benefitted the city, and in 817–18, by contrast, he sets against these an allegedly deleterious recent proposal/ activity of Paphlagon/Cleon.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , December 1996, pp. 561 - 564
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1996

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References

1 Neil, R. A. (London, 1901), p. 118;Rogers, B. B. (London, 21930), pp. 114–15; J. van Leeuwen (1900), pp. 148–9.Google Scholar

2 (Warminster, 1981), p. 87.

3 See Rhodes, P. J., A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (Oxford, 1981), pp.516–17, who refers to two inscriptions from the third quarter of the fourth century, IG ii 2 215 and 338, which are the first to attest the office.Google Scholar

4 See e.g. Homer, Odyssey 3.479–80; Thucydides 1.138.5; Plato, Gorgias 518B–C. I have discussed this traditional tripartite division in CQ 44.2 (1994), 536–9.

5 The prepositional part of the compound verb here means ‘in addition’, and does no more than reinforce ; the participle is a dative of interest, not an indirect object. So, rightly, Neil, p. 118; cf. Sommerstein, p. 87, ‘and more than that… for her as a second helping’. Plutarch, Themistocles 19.4, was mistaken in taking the verb in the sense ‘join onto’ here. Neither Aristophanes nor the Sausage-Seller is under the erroneous impression that Themistocles built the Long Walls.

6 E.g. Thucydides 1.89.2–93.8; Diodorus 11.39–43; Nepos, Themistocles 6; Plutarch, Themistocles 9.1–4.

7 So Neil, p. 118, and Rogers, p. 114, following the explanation of the ancient lexicographers, ‘full only to the lip’; cf. LSJ, s.v. II. Whatever the precise sense of , there is clearly a contrast in the line between and .

8 As suggested by Neil. p. 118.

9 Accepted e.g. by Neil. p. 119, but mentioned only as a possibility by Sommerstein, p. 188.

10 For Cleon's apparent propensity for citing oracles to support his political proposals cf.Knights 109–17, 797–800, 966–1097, 1229–48.Google Scholar