Abstract

This paper presents a re-reading of Aristophanes’s comedy Ekklesiazusai (Assembly Women). It shows that this play exhibits the aporias of the binary gender order, which evolved in classical fifth-century Athens, along with other dualisms typical of the period, such as the opposition of pólis and oíkos. The paper argues that Aristophanes negotiates these dualisms against the background of changing epistemological conditions of the fifth century, i. e. the establishment of the “principle of bivalence”. From the perspective of theater and literary history, this development made the chorus increasingly unrecognizable, since it was primarily a figure of non-binary (and also cosmological) relations. The chorus becomes newly legible today precisely where dualisms erode.

摘要

本文重读了阿里斯托芬的喜剧《Ekklesiazusai》（《妇女集会》）。它表明，这部戏剧展示了在古典五世纪雅典演变而来的二元性别秩序的难题，以及该时期典型的其他二元论，例如政体和伊科斯的对立。本文认为，阿里斯托芬是在五世纪认识论条件不断变化的背景下谈判这些二元论的，即“二价原则”的建立。从戏剧和文学史的角度来看，这种发展使合唱团变得越来越难以辨认，因为它主要是一个非二元（也是宇宙论）关系的形象。今天，合唱团在二元论被侵蚀的地方变得清晰易读。