Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Ancient Greek Philosophy, Eleatics, Arche

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Christopher Brown

Document Summary

December 2, 2013: slide: comedy the papyrus of menander"s dyskolos, this is dialogue; there are no spaces between words or names of speakers, slide: vase. A great majority of them have been found in southern italy. After the classical period, drama became a cultural export and it was performed in many places of the greek world: this vase shows human figures dressed as birds (from aristophanes". We know this is comedy because of the grotesque faces of the men. This vase represents the komos and he goes to a window with a woman on the other side: slide: vase. It is decorated entirely in a menander theme and he inspires all of the floor mosaics: slide: thalia, muse of comedy, slide: comic masks, slide: floor mosaics. New comedy (unlike old comedy) lent itself more directly to exportation because it is not topical and not linked directly with athens: at some point, the popularity of new comedy stopped.