21. Aristophanes Index ARTICLES. aristophanes and His Comedies Biography of the Greek dramatistand analysis of his poetic qualities. Find more articles on aristophanes http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/aristophanes.html

Home Ancient Theatre Greek : Aristophanes ARTICLES Aristophanes and His Comedies - Biography of the Greek dramatist and analysis of his poetic qualities. Aristophanes: Monologues - An index of monologues by the Greek dramatist. Aristophanes: Poems - An index of poems by the Greek dramatist. The Acharnians - Summary and analysis of the play by Aristophanes. The Acharnians - An introduction to the play by Aristophanes. The Birds - Summary and analysis of the play by Aristophanes. The Birds - An introduction to the play by Aristophanes. The Character of Aristophanes - A brief examination of the poet's private character. The Clouds - Analysis of the play by Aristophanes. The Clouds - An introduction to the play by Aristophanes. The Ecclesiazusae - An introduction to the play by Aristophanes. The Frogs - Summary of the play by Aristophanes. The Frogs - An introduction to the play by Aristophanes. The Knights - Analysis of the play by Aristophanes.

22. Introduction To The Wasps Of Aristophanes Brief history and analysis of aristophanes' comedy 'The Wasps.' http://www.wm.edu/CAS/classical_studies/wehutt/r3.html

ABOUT ARISTOPHANES' WASPS Return to agenda The basic story of the play: An old man, Procleon, is addicted to sitting as a juror in the law court. His concerned son, Anticleon, tries desperately to get him to change his ways, and succeeds all too well. Procleon is transformed from a jury-animal to a party animal. He starts attending drinking parties, getting plastered, and engaging in all sorts of activity that Anticleon finds even more embarrasing. The context in which the humor of the play makes sense is that of the litigiousness of Athenian society of the late 5th century. The number of court cases was expanding constantly, creating an ever-increasing need for jurymen to staff the normally 500-strong juries. Pericles had instituted a small amount of pay for jurymen, and for decrepit old men like the character Procleon in this play, this was a valuable source of additional income. Moreover, sitting on juries gave folks like Procleon and the "wasps" of the chorus something more interesting to do than sit around and watch the cheese curdle. The goings-on in the Athenian courtrooms gave them an important role in public life, and provided them with lively topics of discussion and gossip... the ancient equivalent of "Court TV" and "Judge Judy". Aristophanes, the playwright, is poking fun of this trend in Athenian society in the ridiculous person of Procleon. However, Athenian litigiousness and trial mania are not his only target. In his conversion from his former juryman's life, Procleon becomes a caricature of an upper-class boob engaging in one of the well-heeled set's favorite addictions: dressing up in your finery, attending drinking parties and meetings of all-male secret societies and going on wine-soaked rampages through the streets, beating up passersby, knocking over statues, mauling slaves and women, etc. By the end of the play, it's hard to tell whether Philocleon is any better off for having traded a poor man's pastime for a rich man's.

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25. The Classic Text: Aristophanes aristophanes' plays have remained important throughout the years as the work ofa master playwright and have achieved notoriety because they are the only http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg033.htm

T he plays of Aristophanes are the only surviving complete examples of Old Greek Comedy, all written between 427 and 385 B.C. His contemporaries thought highly of his works, and awarded him many prizes for his plays. His success was attributed to his fresh and charming meters and lyrics. As much as Aristophanes was intellectual and imaginative and could design comic situations with ease and style, he often lacked humor and emotion. A political conservative, who often felt himself "in opposition" to the government, Aristophanes held a strong mistrust for social, religious, literary and musical innovations. A ristophanes' plays have remained important throughout the years as the work of a master playwright and have achieved notoriety because they are the only surviving examples of Old Greek Comedy. I n the Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club , the editors include a discussion of the importance and success of the plays of Aristophanes. They include quotations from the introduction to the Limited Editions Club edition of The Birds in 1959, written by scholar and translator, Dudley Fitts:

26. Greek And Roman Comedy A history of the comic drama, focusing on its origins and development in the works of aristophanes, Menander, Plautus and Terence. http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/comedy001.html

GREEK AND ROMAN COMEDY This document was originally published in The Development of the Drama . Brander Matthews. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. pp. 74-106. Although the true dramatist cannot but conceive both the incidents of his play and its personages at the same moment, yet we are accustomed to consider tragedy and comedy nobler than melodrama and farce, because in the former the characters themselves seem to create the situations of the plot and to dominate its structure; whereas in the latter it is obvious rather that the situations have evoked the characters, and that these are realized only in so far as the conduct of the story may cause them to reveal the characteristics thus called for. Comedy, then, appears to us as a humorous piece, the action of which is caused by the clash of character on character; and this is a definition which fits THE MISANTHROPE , THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, and THE GENDRE DE M. POIRIER

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28. The Lysistrata Project, Theater Artists Against War, Anti-War, Stop The War On I Theater project for peace readings of aristophanes' antiwar comedy are to be held in cities around the world on 2003-03-03. Includes project details and participation information. http://www.pecosdesign.com/lys/

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29. Perseus Encyclopedia Similar pages www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgibin/ptext?doc=Perseusabotlg,0019,003 Similar pages More results from www.perseus.tufts.edu The San Antonio College LitWeb aristophanes PageThe aristophanes Page ( c. 448-c. 380 BC ) Surviving Works aristophanes is availablein the following collections Penguin, 1964. Four Plays by aristophanes. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/encyclopedia?entry=Aristophanes

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31. Aristophanes: Poems An index of poems by aristophanes. http://www.poetry-archive.com/a/aristophanes.html

POEMS BY ARISTOPHANES: Chorus of Birds Chorus of the Initiated Song of the Clouds RELATED WEBSITES Aristophanes - A biography Greek comedy writer. Aristophanes (c. 448-380 B.C.) - A biography of the Greek comedy writer, plus links to purchase all of his works currently in print. Aristophanes and His Comedies - A biography of the Greek dramatist and analysis of his poetic qualities. Aristophanes Index - An index of articles related to the Greek dramatist. Aristophanes: Monologues - An index of monologues. The Character of Aristophanes - A brief examination of the poet's private character. The Clouds - Analysis of the play by Aristophanes. Poems by Greek Dramatists - An index of poems by the dramatists of ancient Greece. Political and Social Satire of Aristophanes - A general analysis of the poet's social and political satire. Purchase books by Aristophanes Search eBay!

32. Aristophanes And Greek Old Comedy, U. Of Sask. To Home Page To Course Notes Menu. aristophanes and Greek Old Comedy by John Porter,University of Saskatchewan. (Cf. the Course Notes on aristophanes' Clouds.). http://duke.usask.ca/~porterj/CourseNotes/Aristophanes.html

To Home Page To Course Notes Menu Aristophanes and Greek Old Comedy by John Porter, University of Saskatchewan Notice: Suggested Background Reading Aristophanes, Lysistrata and Other Plays (A. H. Sommerstein transl.), pp. 9-38 World of Athens, Items to note: *Old Comedy , typical structural elements of Old Comedy, *parabasis Greek Old Comedy Aristophanes: Works Greek Old Comedy. The historical origins of tragedy and comedy are often sought in Greek religious ritual. A ritual origin for tragedy is difficult to establish, but there are several elements in the so-called *Old Comedy that can be employed to make a good prima facie case for the development of 5th-century Athenian comedy out of Dionysiac rites. The Greek komoidia means "the song of the komos." A komos komos often involved masks and costumes, as does Mardi gras, but was marked by another practice foreign to most festivals in modern North America: aischrologia or the ritual abuse of individuals. Another distinctive feature, found in many Dionysiac rites and no doubt in some komoi

33. The Frogs Summary of aristophanes' comedy 'The Frogs.' http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/bates029.html

THE FROGS A summary of the play by Aristophanes This document was originally published in The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, vol. 2 . ed. Alfred Bates. London: Historical Publishing Company, 1906. pp. 30-31. The play of the Frogs turns upon the decline of tragic art. Euripides was dead; so were Sophocles and Agathon ; there remained none but second-rate tragedians. Bacchus misses Euripides, and wishes to bring him back from the infernal world. In this he imitates Hercules, but though equipped with the lion-hide and club of the hero, he is very unlike him in character, and as a dastardly voluptuary, gives rise to much laughter. Here we may see the boldness of the comedian in the right point of view; he does not scruple to attack the guardian god of his own art, in honor of whom the play was exhibited, for it was the common belief that the gods understood fun as well, if not better, than men. Bacchus rows himself over the Acherusian lake, where the frogs pleasantly greet him with their croaking. The proper chorus, however, consists of the shades of the initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries, and odes of wonderful beauty are assigned to them. Aeschylus had at first assumed the tragic throne in the lower world, but now Euripides is for thrusting him off.

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35. Aristophanes. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 2001. aristophanes. aristophanes’ Greek is exceptionally beautiful, and manyof his choruses are among the finest lyric pieces in Greek literature. http://www.bartleby.com/65/ar/Aristph.html

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37. The Birds Summary and analysis of aristophanes' play 'The Birds.' http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/bates026.html

THE BIRDS A summary and analysis of the play by Aristophanes This document was originally published in The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, vol. 2 . ed. Alfred Bates. London: Historical Publishing Company, 1906. pp. 43-46. The Birds In the subjoined extract the birds give their account of the creation of the world, which is in the poets most fantastic vein. It was Chaos and Night at the first, and the blackness of darkness, and hell's broad border; Earth was not, nor air, neither heaven; when in depths of the womb of the dark without order First thing first born of the black-plumed Night was a wind-egg hatched in her bosom, Whence timely, with season revolving again, sweet Love burst out as a blossom, Gold wings glittering forth of his back, like whirlwinds gustily turning He, after his wedlock with Chaos, whose wings are of darkness in hell broad-burning, For his nestings begat him a race of birds first and upraised us to light new-lighted.

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Aristophanes (c. 448 BC-c. 380 BC) Aristophanes (ca. 446 BC - 385 BC) was a Greek comic poet, famous for writing plays, especially comedies such as The Birds for the two Athenian festivals the Dionisia and the Lenea. Many of his plays were political and he is known to have been prosecuted for Athenian law's equivalent of libel more than once. A famous comedy, The Frogs , was given the unprecedented honor of a second perfomance. He appears in Plato 's Symposium, giving a humorous mythical account of the origin of Love. The Clouds pokes fun at famous figures, notably Socrates , and may have contributed to the common conception of the philosopher as a Sophist. Plato is said to have kept a copy of the Clouds under his pillow. Lysistrata was written during the Peloponnesian war between Athens and Sparta and presents a pacifist theme in a comical manner: the women of the two states deprive their husbands of sex until they stop fighting. This play was later illustrated at length by Pablo Picasso . [Adapted from Wikipedia The Great Books Aristophanes This web page is part of a biographical database on Great Ideas . These are living ideas that have shaped, defined and directed world culture for over 2,500 years. By definition the

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Home Browse and Comment Search ... Help The Birds By Aristophanes Commentary: Several comments have been posted about The Birds Read them or add your own Reader Recommendations: Recommend a Web site you feel is appropriate to this work, list recommended Web sites , or visit a random recommended Web site Download: A 94k text-only version is available for download The Birds By Aristophanes Written 414 B.C.E Dramatis Personae EUELPIDES PITHETAERUS TROCHILUS, Servant to Epops Epops (the Hoopoe) A BIRD A HERALD A PRIEST A POET AN ORACLE-MONGER METON, a Geometrician AN INSPECTOR A DEALER IN DECREES IRIS A PARRICIDE CINESIAS, a Dithyrambic Poet AN INFORMER PROMETHEUS POSIDON TRIBALLUS HERACLES SLAVES OF PITHETAERUS MESSENGERS CHORUS OF BIRDS Scene A wild and desolate region; only thickets, rocks, and a single tree are seen. EUELPIDES and PITHETAERUS enter, each with a bird in his hand. EUELPIDES to his jay Do you think I should walk straight for yon tree? PITHETAERUS to his crow Cursed beast, what are you croaking to me?...to retrace my steps? EUELPIDES Why, you wretch, we are wandering at random, we are exerting

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