Ironiczny pokój: Pokój Arystofanesa i pokój Nikiasza
An Ironic Peace: Aristophanes’ Peace and the Peace of Nicias

Summary/Abstract: The essay is an attempt to examine and interpret selected meanings of the Aristophanes’ famous play: Peace in order to see how and what for the recent history and social context of his pólis was interpreted by Aristophanes. My thesis is that Aristophanes may be embedded in the mechanistic theory of human behaviour. His interpretation is also a part of a literary project with much wider resonance than current political issues, forming a universal interpretation of human nature. This interpretation is at the same time deeply auto-ironic and unstable, yet able to pursue divine goals.

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