Fragments of a legal discourse: the de-contextualization of legal vocabulary and its comic effectiveness in Aristophanes’ Banqueters
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https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.2009.v77.i1.307Keywords:
Banqueters, Aristophanes, comic devices, Athenian law, technical vocabularyAbstract
The presence of legal vocabulary is permanent throughout the fragments which have survived from Aristophanes´first comedy Δαιταλῆς ‘Banqueters’. By means of a philological study of those verses, the purpose of this article is to show how the sophistic handling of the technical terms of tribunals and the breakdown of their formal conditions of application become an effective comic mechanism before an audience who is used to understanding the backgrounds of justice.
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2009-06-30
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Jerónimo Buis, E. (2009). Fragments of a legal discourse: the de-contextualization of legal vocabulary and its comic effectiveness in Aristophanes’ Banqueters. Emerita, 77(1), 79–108. https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.2009.v77.i1.307
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