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Mind Map by kayz.oakcroft, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by kayz.oakcroft
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Frogs- Aristophanes
- Characters:
- Dionysus
- Xanthiaus
- Heracles
- Pluto
- Pluto
- Euripidies
- Aeschylus
- Aeschylus
- Xanthiaus
- A corpse
- Charon
- Aeacus
- maid to Persephone
- two land ladies
- two land ladies
- maid to Persephone
- Charon
- slave: to pluto
- Dionysus
- state of Athenian society
- Athens in desperate situation
- need a tragic poet to "save the city"
- Peloponnesian war
- death of Euripidies and sophocles ended
Athenian democracy
- Sophists, especially Socrates, are teaching a new
wisdom independent of the 'control' of the drama
festivals
- Aristophanes believes that only a great dramatic poet can bring the polis
together again as a community and restore its morale in the very dangerous
days to come. Tragic drama will stop the slide into intellectual anarchy or
despair
- In a parabasis in the play Aristophanes says, in effect, “if we have to go under, let’s at least do it greatly.
- In a parabasis in the play Aristophanes says, in effect, “if we have to go under, let’s at least do it greatly.
- Aristophanes believes that only a great dramatic poet can bring the polis
together again as a community and restore its morale in the very dangerous
days to come. Tragic drama will stop the slide into intellectual anarchy or
despair
- Sophists, especially Socrates, are teaching a new
wisdom independent of the 'control' of the drama
festivals
- death of Euripidies and sophocles ended
Athenian democracy
- Peloponnesian war
- need a tragic poet to "save the city"
- Athens in desperate situation
- serious messages:
- Aristophanes is pleading for a
return to the old way of life:
conservative, aristocratic,
non-dynamic. He is trying to put
back the clock to the good old
days of Aeschylus, where Greeks
did not engage in military
adventures, like the disastrous
Sicilian Expedition.
- a call to Athens to
save itself before it io
ls toate.
- Aristophanes is pleading for a
return to the old way of life:
conservative, aristocratic,
non-dynamic. He is trying to put
back the clock to the good old
days of Aeschylus, where Greeks
did not engage in military
adventures, like the disastrous
Sicilian Expedition.
- chorus's
- But the boat could be
pushed - by a chorus of
leaping frogs
- Chorus of Initiates for the Parados.
- Chorus complains how better costumes
could not be afforded for their other
incarnation. “Wartime economy”
- The Chorus begins by exorcising bad poets, politicians, etc. in the city of Athens and then goes on to
sing out a set of verses some holy, some attacking people in the city. This is the double function of
Aristophanic comedy: to both be a religious celebration and a form of political satire.
- parabis:
- This parabasis is particularly urgent because
Athens is facing its crucial and, it turned out, final
battle. And Aristophanes is outraged at the civic
quarreling, the divisions, within the polis. So he
launches an all out attack upon the politicians he
thinks are leading the polis astray Again one is
astonished at the Athenians.
- This parabasis is particularly urgent because
Athens is facing its crucial and, it turned out, final
battle. And Aristophanes is outraged at the civic
quarreling, the divisions, within the polis. So he
launches an all out attack upon the politicians he
thinks are leading the polis astray Again one is
astonished at the Athenians.
- The Chorus begins by exorcising bad poets, politicians, etc. in the city of Athens and then goes on to
sing out a set of verses some holy, some attacking people in the city. This is the double function of
Aristophanic comedy: to both be a religious celebration and a form of political satire.
- Chorus complains how better costumes
could not be afforded for their other
incarnation. “Wartime economy”
- Chorus of Initiates for the Parados.
- But the boat could be
pushed - by a chorus of
leaping frogs
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