CLASSICS 2E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Spike Lee, Athenian Democracy, Lysistrata
21 Jul 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Aristophanes and old comedy: mid 5th century to early 4th century bce, the principle representative of old comedy (other: cratinus; eupolis) In contrast to new comedy, emphasis on particular figures, not stock characters or situational comedy. In athens, a part of theatrical festivals: the lenaea (around january); city dionysia (around april) Both in honor to dionysus (god of wine: pots from italy. Aristophanes and athenian democracy: putting before athenians a picture of themselves (and ritually incorparated within the structure of. "immanent criticism" - ober: parody of all aspects of athenian social and political life (eg. cleon; socrates; political institutions, no one is above his satirical barbs-- not even the demos itself. In some other plays, the chorus" parabasis a voices the sentiments of (the poetic personal of ) Step out of the comedy and addresses audience directly (aristophanes own voice)
