CLST 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Lysistrata, Komos, Aeschylus

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 205
• Professor: R Drew Griffith

Document Summary

Plays of aristophanes: derived from greek word komos. His plays hero marries glorious abstract principle like peace or kingship: only one instance that this did not happen. Two mandatory parts in old comedy: agon or debating contests. Quack always wins this type of debate: bubble-burster can only drive quack off stage by force, parabasis. Chorus- members step aside and address the crowd. Like a pre-paid political announcement on behalf of the playwright himself. Chorus tends to represent real animals in old comedy: aristophane"s wasps. Aristophane"s made his plays deliberately funny: says man can"t go to bed without masturbating. Many puns in plays with respect to bugs too. Moon reckon the months for greek plays. Three plays by aristophanes: birds, lysistrata, frogs. Birds: plot is about two athenians peisthetaerus and euelpides: both fed up by quacks of athens, go to meet with tereus. Tereus was a human but transformed into a bird by gods.