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grbs-171	Nieddu, Gian Franco	A Poet at Work: The Parody of Helen in the Thesmophoriazusae	2004	30	.pdf	application/pdf	12852	502	58	Rostagni 17 (2001) 127–135, at 131, the scene of Agathon takes us back “a un’oralità legata al contesto comunicativo tea- trale”—rather than to an orality of composition (Herington, Poetry): in this scene the poet will try out “l’effetto che doveva ottenere l’esecuzione pubblica del suo canto, esercitando una sorta di ‘controllo acustico’ sul testo dram- matico.” 14 Frr.208 (lhre›w ¶xvn: grãf' aÈtÚn | §n §peisod¤ƒ. 918–919, sÁ tØn §mØn guna›ka kvlÊeiw §m°, | tØn Tundãreion pa›d', §p‹ Spãrthn êgein; GIAN FRANCO NIEDDU 349 What clearly emerges from the framework that we have de- scribed is that Aristophanes does not limit himself to quoting verses in a more or less literal manner, but in parallel carries out a series of operations which redesign the model text: (1) he excises whatever he deems irrelevant and unnecessary58 or per- haps even too complex;59 (2) he summarises a lengthy account in a line;60 (3) he inverts the sequence of the quotations;61 (4) he compresses distinct scenes and juxtaposes lines that in the original belong to different contexts.62 With indisputable efficacy the result of his work is bent to comic use and selectively altered to fit the parodic game.	cache/grbs-171.pdf	txt/grbs-171.txt