Кухнята на Аристофановата комедия „Птиците“: еротика и политика
The Kitchen of Aristophanes’ Comedy “Birds”: Erotica and Politica

Author(s): Vanya Lozanova-Stancheva
Subject(s): History, Literary Texts, Ancient World, Drama
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: Aristophanes; comedy The Birds; culinary code; “the lifestyle/ the diet of birds”; the alelofagiya motive
Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes Aristophanes’ comedy The Birds performed in 414 BC at the City Dionysia and not long after the commencement of the Sicilian Expedition. The play is built largely on the specific culinary code defining the political and cultural „otherness” through „the birds’ life”. Information of this type can be organized into three main groups: – Motifs that characterize „the lifestyle/the diet of birds” scattered throughout the text of the comedy; – To this group gravitates the motive for the creation of the world as culinary confusion in so-called „Ornitogoniya” (vv. 693–702) in the first parabaza. – The alelofagiya’s motive, the motive of killing/eating conspecific, culminating in the episode with the penalty of rebelling against democracy birds (1579–1590; 1637; 1689), baked for the wedding of Pisthetaerus with Basileya.

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