Poetics of Distance: Diplomatic Estrangements and Physical Separations in Two Comic Fragments by Anaxandrides (frr. 40-41 K.-A.)
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Two fragments of Middle Comedy, corresponding to lost works of the poet Anaxandrides (fr. 40 K.-A. of his play Cities and fr. 41 K.-A. of Protesilaus), allude to failed diplomatic approaches with the Egyptians. This paper examines philologically the preserved verses of these fragments in order to note that frustration is expressed on multiple performative levels: through a dismantling of the positive emotions usually present in the vocabulary of cooperative agreements of the time and, simultaneously, through a material remoteness that is based on the physical differences between the bodies of the negotiators. On this basis, it is concluded that Anaxandrides accounts for an irretrievable rift through a true poetics of distance, skillfully sustained on different, yet complementary, normative pillars, such as the political, the affective and the material/corporal.
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