The Lord of the Wings: Political Leadership and the Rhetorical Manipulation of Athenian Law in Aristophanes' Birds

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Buis, Emiliano Jerónimo
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2013
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My specific purpose here is to provide a comprehensive reading of juridical references in Aristophanes´ comedy Birds (414 BCE). My point of departure is the well-stated conclusion that the protagonist of the play, Peisetaerus —not surprisingly named as he who persuades his companions, becomes an outstanding master of rhetoric, who smoothly manages to use his logos to convince birds, gods and mortals about his own ruling primacy. What I intend to show here is that this triumph is not only achieved by the mere power of language, but can be explained more specifically as the result of a well-thought legal manipulation. A close reading of the play —as I will try to demonstrate— can illustrate how Peisetaerus is capable of adjusting Attic law to different situations, both bringing and pushing back at the same time his personal experience as a former citizen of the Athenian imperial polis. By means of marriage and sucession, conventional law will serve to subvert the power of Zeus and to achieve in the hands of the comic hero the colonization of the Olympian territories.
Fil: Buis, Emiliano Jerónimo. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofia y Letras. Instituto de Filologia Clasica; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
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spelling The Lord of the Wings: Political Leadership and the Rhetorical Manipulation of Athenian Law in Aristophanes' BirdsBuis, Emiliano JerónimoBirdsAristophanesAthenian LawImperialismhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.2https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6My specific purpose here is to provide a comprehensive reading of juridical references in Aristophanes´ comedy Birds (414 BCE). My point of departure is the well-stated conclusion that the protagonist of the play, Peisetaerus —not surprisingly named as he who persuades his companions, becomes an outstanding master of rhetoric, who smoothly manages to use his logos to convince birds, gods and mortals about his own ruling primacy. What I intend to show here is that this triumph is not only achieved by the mere power of language, but can be explained more specifically as the result of a well-thought legal manipulation. A close reading of the play —as I will try to demonstrate— can illustrate how Peisetaerus is capable of adjusting Attic law to different situations, both bringing and pushing back at the same time his personal experience as a former citizen of the Athenian imperial polis. By means of marriage and sucession, conventional law will serve to subvert the power of Zeus and to achieve in the hands of the comic hero the colonization of the Olympian territories.Fil: Buis, Emiliano Jerónimo. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofia y Letras. Instituto de Filologia Clasica; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaCenter for Hellenic Studies2013-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/mswordapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/3726Buis, Emiliano Jerónimo; The Lord of the Wings: Political Leadership and the Rhetorical Manipulation of Athenian Law in Aristophanes' Birds; Center for Hellenic Studies; CHS Research Bulletin; 2; 1; 1-2013; 1-172329-0137enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:BuisE.The_Lord_of_the_Wings.2013info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-09-29T10:23:12Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/3726instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-09-29 10:23:13.055CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
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title The Lord of the Wings: Political Leadership and the Rhetorical Manipulation of Athenian Law in Aristophanes' Birds
spellingShingle The Lord of the Wings: Political Leadership and the Rhetorical Manipulation of Athenian Law in Aristophanes' Birds
Buis, Emiliano Jerónimo
Birds
Aristophanes
Athenian Law
Imperialism
title_short The Lord of the Wings: Political Leadership and the Rhetorical Manipulation of Athenian Law in Aristophanes' Birds
title_full The Lord of the Wings: Political Leadership and the Rhetorical Manipulation of Athenian Law in Aristophanes' Birds
title_fullStr The Lord of the Wings: Political Leadership and the Rhetorical Manipulation of Athenian Law in Aristophanes' Birds
title_full_unstemmed The Lord of the Wings: Political Leadership and the Rhetorical Manipulation of Athenian Law in Aristophanes' Birds
title_sort The Lord of the Wings: Political Leadership and the Rhetorical Manipulation of Athenian Law in Aristophanes' Birds
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Buis, Emiliano Jerónimo
author Buis, Emiliano Jerónimo
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Birds
Aristophanes
Athenian Law
Imperialism
topic Birds
Aristophanes
Athenian Law
Imperialism
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv My specific purpose here is to provide a comprehensive reading of juridical references in Aristophanes´ comedy Birds (414 BCE). My point of departure is the well-stated conclusion that the protagonist of the play, Peisetaerus —not surprisingly named as he who persuades his companions, becomes an outstanding master of rhetoric, who smoothly manages to use his logos to convince birds, gods and mortals about his own ruling primacy. What I intend to show here is that this triumph is not only achieved by the mere power of language, but can be explained more specifically as the result of a well-thought legal manipulation. A close reading of the play —as I will try to demonstrate— can illustrate how Peisetaerus is capable of adjusting Attic law to different situations, both bringing and pushing back at the same time his personal experience as a former citizen of the Athenian imperial polis. By means of marriage and sucession, conventional law will serve to subvert the power of Zeus and to achieve in the hands of the comic hero the colonization of the Olympian territories.
Fil: Buis, Emiliano Jerónimo. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofia y Letras. Instituto de Filologia Clasica; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
description My specific purpose here is to provide a comprehensive reading of juridical references in Aristophanes´ comedy Birds (414 BCE). My point of departure is the well-stated conclusion that the protagonist of the play, Peisetaerus —not surprisingly named as he who persuades his companions, becomes an outstanding master of rhetoric, who smoothly manages to use his logos to convince birds, gods and mortals about his own ruling primacy. What I intend to show here is that this triumph is not only achieved by the mere power of language, but can be explained more specifically as the result of a well-thought legal manipulation. A close reading of the play —as I will try to demonstrate— can illustrate how Peisetaerus is capable of adjusting Attic law to different situations, both bringing and pushing back at the same time his personal experience as a former citizen of the Athenian imperial polis. By means of marriage and sucession, conventional law will serve to subvert the power of Zeus and to achieve in the hands of the comic hero the colonization of the Olympian territories.
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