CLST 205 Chapter 11-12: CLST 205-Chapter 11 & 12 notes(Got A+ in the course!)
3 Oct 2017
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Comedy derives from (cid:494)edy(cid:495) meaning song, and komos (pub-crawl) Clouds- artistophanes: strepsiades attempts to learn how to weasel out of his debts from the great eiron and alazon socrates, the final komos is usually dark, consisting of. Strepsiades and pheidippides burning down the thinkery: obligatory elements in old comedy: komos, agon, parabasis, agon- contest- source of our word agony. Etc: bugs- strepsiades wakes up pheidippides bc he was bitten by a bumbailiff (demarchos) out of the mattress, socrates performs a scientific experiment to see how many of its own feet a flea can jump using wax booties. Puns are the coals (anthrakes, punning on anthropoid and andres, the 2 greek words for people: strepsiades(cid:495) claims that the earth is a tandoor (cid:523))ndian cooking poit(cid:524) and we, two meanings of tokos (cid:498)interest/child(cid:499) Heracles extracts a favour from his son, hyllus: heracles asks hyllus to carry his body with his own hands, with any friends.
