Pederastia, educação e cultura política dos Aristhoi no discurso aristofânico d'As Nuvens (Atenas, séc. V a.C.)

Abstract

The proposal of this historiographical analysis in this research is part of the intersection of Political History and Cultural History, due to theoretical structure that underlies the arguments and hypotheses proposed. The issue of political interests around the pederasty meanings in Aristophanes' speech was developed from the confrontation between the documentation and the socio-political context of Athens in the fifth century BC. The intense changes that the society of the Athenians was exposed throughout that century, the symbolism involving the Dionysus Theatre and the way the Athenians were seizing the comedy plots were instrumental to selecting the aristophanic speech as a power mechanism that society. Therefore, the monumentalization of theater spaces, seen as a symbolic space control, contributed to the spread and perpetuation of certain lifestyles and for communication and survival of specific socials imaginaries. In the set of dramatic works inserted in the theater, Aristophanes' works mobilized several aristocratic ideals, allowing us to hypothetical reflection that this author references the social segment of aristhoi. Using theater as a reporting space, Aristophanes satirized aspects that made that social segment lost political and economic power, with the backdrop of the Peloponnesian War. A discourse analysis which consider the implications of language practice allows the observation of cultural symbols and consequently the memory of the discursive subject, observing the political influences in their judgments. Accordingly, the purpose of this dissertation is to observe the political impositions in representations produced by Aristophanes' comedy about pederasty.