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c.1\/1. SIFAKIS

Professor Sifakis’s latest study offers a

critical analysis of the evidence on two

topics concerning the origins and develop

ment of Greek comedy. This new exami

nation into the function, form and origins

of those parts in which the chorus addressed

the audience in the poet’s name is based

upon the author’s conviction that all

earlier analyses of the subject have been

based on a false premise, viz. the assump

tion that the parabasis interrupted the

dramatic illusion — a term and notion

which is claimed to be inapplicable to

Greek drama. Professor Sifakis then uses

the results of this study to investigate

performances, and their survival in classi

cal times, of the animal choruses shown on

sixth or early ﬁfth-century vases.

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PARABASIS AND

ANIMAL CHQRUSEQ

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