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Gender Constructing in Aristaenetus' Intertextual “Dialogues” with Comedy

Aristaenetus’ Erotic Letters abound with comic echoes (quotations, paraphrases, allusions, comic motifs etc.). I intend to conduct an extensive intertextual analysis ; “clues” found in recent editions will be subjected to meticulous review and supplemented by additional links to comic texts. Special attention will be paid to letters featuring: - comedy’s stock characters (smart courtesans, jealous husbands, devious wives), - protagonists bearing names typical of comedy (e. g. Doris, Strepsiades, Sosias) - motifs ubiquitous in comedy ; adultery (e.g. cheating wives, raging husbands), passing another man’s baby as husband’s/ fiancé’s, a happy ending of a courtesan’s life and her marriage to a rich citizen, etc. Gender constructing both in comedy-inspired Aristaenetus’ letters and in the source-texts themselves will be investigated ; I am interested in the (potential) changes of the roles and behavioural patterns of Aristaenetus’ male/female protagonists. Letters 1.5 and 1.22 (featuring Alciphron) particularly abound with comic echoes (displaying Aristaenetus’ awareness of Alciphron’s debt to comedy?). It is my intention to scrutinise these, but also other letters “sent by” epistolographers (1.1, 1.11, 2.1), in search of similar indirect intertextual connections. In these cases, Aristaenetus’ gender constructing will be compared twice: with Alciphron’s (and other epistolographers’) and with the gender constructing in the comic passages Aristaenetus alludes to.

gender ; gender constructing ; Aristaenetus ; Greek comedy

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