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Traill, Ariana Karatzoglou, Orestis 2013-05-24T21:52:53Z 2013-05-24T21:52:53Z 2013-05 2013-05-24T21:52:53Z 2013-05 Four out of the eleven extant Aristophanic comedies contain, or refer to, oracles (Knights, Peace, Birds, Lysistrata). This thesis aims (a) to discuss Aristophanes’ stance toward oracles and oracle-collections; (b) to comment on each oracle in these four plays in chronological order, and to reach conclusions regarding Aristophanes’ usage of them while paying close attention to their language. The conclusions reached are that oracles are depicted in a way that takes for granted their political manipulation, that their language is never self-sufficient and authoritative by itself, and that the persuasive force of an oracle depends equally on an interpretation that has to be linked to something easily recognizable by the audience. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2013-04-22T21:04:55Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Karatzoglou_Orestis.pdf: 553576 bytes, checksum: a367442da569145026d1786333e7a953 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-24T21:52:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Orestis_Karatzoglou.pdf: 434336 bytes, checksum: 6bea1bcd190cac59f4e996ecdf45fa55 (MD5) license.txt: 4069 bytes, checksum: 97fa833019c52500179984178672448b (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/44157 en Copyright 2013 Orestis Karatzoglou Aristophanes Oracles Ancient Comedy Old Comedy Politics Political discourse Manipulation Aristophanic Oracles text Classics 1514 Classics 0308 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.A. MA:Classics -UIUC 10KS0308MA