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Job Talk: Making Room for the New God: Space and Religion in Aristophanes’ "Ploutos" by Francisco Barrenechea

January 25, 2012
All Day
University Hall room 448

In Aristophanes’ Ploutos, the personification of Wealth is welcomed and given a space in the community.  The tensions that arise between the new arrival and the older deities, tensions that closely parallel those found in historical narratives related to the introduction of new gods, are played out and resolved through the creation of contrasting ritual spaces in the course of the comedy.