“Old” pan and “new” pan in menander’s "dyskolos"

• Ippokratis Kantzios ^[1]
  1. [1] University of South Florida

     University of South Florida

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Classical journal, ISSN 0009-8353, Vol. 106, Nº 1, 2010, págs. 23-42
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • While in the classical period Pan is often an aggressive and dangerous figure, in Menander’s Dyskolos he is depicted as urbane, civic-minded and benevolent, and thus in closer alignment with the general presentation of the god by Hellenistic authors. Menander highlights Pan’s evolution through the distribution of his antithetical traits between two dramatic characters: the wild, reclusive Knemon and the divinity of the prologue. “Old” Pan/Knemon expresses civic disengagement and the ferocity of the undomesticated; “New” Pan mediates between country and city, and adopts inclusiveness and greater openness to communal integration.