RICOSTRUZIONE SCENICA DI AR., EC., 500-513

A new reconstruction of the staging of lines 500-513 of Aristophanes’ Ekklesiazousai. Upon her return from the assembly, Praxagoras gives Blepyros’ clothes to a female slave who brings them inside the house. There is no need to postulate an empty stage at any point of this passage; κα […] σ and κατευτρεπίζω at lines 509-510 can be given their standard meaning. Praxagoras’ pursues a twofold strategy for bringing Blepyros’ clothes inside; the only partial success of this strategy has implications for the development of the scene.