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Title: Astrateia and Lipostration: Staging Desertion on the Attic Comic Stage
Contributor(s): Torello, Giulia  (author)
Publication Date: 2012
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/31172
Abstract: When asked to define what 'courage' (ἀνδϱεία) is, Laches replies without hesitation: 'anyone who is willing to stay at his post and face the enemy, and does not run away, you may be sure is courageous' (ἀνδϱεῖος, PL La. 190e4). The concept of andreia in ancient Greece cannot be dissociated from a martial context. As Sluiter and Rosen put it, 'war is the prototypical scene for manifestations of courage and manliness' . Conversely, one could say that 'running away in the middle of the battle' is a sign of ἄνανδϱία, a lack of manly qualities. This paper further explores the association between unmanliness and failure to comply with military obligations in tragic and comic dramatizations of draft-dodging (ἀστδατεία) and desertion (λιποστδάτιον).
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Greek Drama IV: Texts, Contexts, Performance, p. 190-203
Publisher: Aris and Phillips
Place of Publication: Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN: 9780856688706
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 470513 Latin and classical Greek literature
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 130203 Literature
130704 Understanding Europe’s past
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/927511624
Editor: Editor(s): David Rosenbloom and John Davidson
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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