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Aristophanes, in The Frogs, pokes fun at Theramenes ' ability to extricate himself from tight spots, but delivers none of the scathing rebukes one would expect for a politician whose role in the shocking events after Arginusae had been regarded as particularly blameworthy, and modern scholars have seen in this a more accurate depiction of how Theramenes was perceived in his time ; Lysias, meanwhile, who mercilessly attacks Theramenes on many counts, has nothing negative to say about the aftermath of Arginusae.
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Aristophanes and Frogs
In the later play Frogs, Aristophanes softens his criticisms, but even so it may be only for the sake of punning on Agathon's name ( ἁγαθός = " good ") that he makes Dionysus call him a " good poet ".
In The Frogs ( 405 BC ) by Aristophanes, Dionysus descends to Hades and announces himself as Heracles.
Aristophanes scripted him as a character in at least three plays: The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs.
In The Frogs, composed after Euripides and Aeschylus were both dead, Aristophanes imagines the god Dionysus venturing down to Hades in search of a good poet to bring back to Athens.
* Heracles also appears in Aristophanes ' The Frogs, in which Dionysus seeks out the hero to find a way to the underworld.
In the case of a frog croaking, the spelling may vary because different frog species around the world make different sounds: Ancient Greek brekekekex koax koax ( only in Aristophanes ' comic play The Frogs ) for probably marsh frogs ; English ribbit for species of frog found in North America ; English verb " croak " for the common frog.
* The Frogs – a musical version of Aristophanes ' comedy with book by Burt Shevelove ( 1974 ).
" The word xylon " piece of wood " was also used, but for a gallows, not a stake, as in the Aristophanes comedy The Frogs ; " if you stumble, at least you'll hang from a respectable tree.
" The fact of bad money being used in preference to good money is also noted by Aristophanes in his play The Frogs, which dates from around the end of the 5th century BC.
* Aristophanes ' play The Frogs is performed.
Aristophanes, a comic playwright, defines and shapes the idea of comedy almost as Aeschylus had shaped tragedy as an art form — Aristophanes ' most famous plays include the Lysistrata and The Frogs.
The Acheron was sometimes referred to as a lake or swamp in Greek literature, as in Aristophanes ' The Frogs and Euripides ' Alcestis.
The most famous mention of Iacchus is in The Frogs by Aristophanes, where the Mystae ( mystics ) invoke him as a riotous dancer in the meadow, attended by the Charites, who " tosses torches " and is likened to a star bringing light to the darkness of the rites.
* Aristophanes, Frogs, Matthew Dillon ( translator ), Tufts University, 1908.
Jackson Knight, " Vergil's Charon is not only the Greek ferryman of Aristophanes The Frogs, but more than half his Etruscan self, Charun, the Etruscan torturing death-devil, no ferryman at all.
Aristophanes, a comic playwright, defines and shapes the idea of comedy almost as Aeschylus had shaped tragedy as an art form — Aristophanes ' most famous plays include the Lysistrata and The Frogs.
Euripides is frequently the butt of jokes in Aristophanes ' plays and he appears as a ludicrous character in The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs.
* Euripides: One of the great tragic poets, he is the butt of jokes in many of Aristophanes plays and he even appears as a character in three of them ( The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs ).
* Euripides: A controversial tragic poet, he is lampooned in all Aristophanes ' plays and he even features as a character in three of them ( The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs ).
* Comedy Overture, The Frogs ( 1935, Aristophanes, Proms, Queen's Hall, 1936 )
Aeschylus was very popular in Athens decades after his death, as Aristophanes ' The Frogs ( 405 BC ) makes clear.
It made its first appearance on April 13, 1899 during a Stanford rally when yell leaders used it to decapitate a straw man dressed in blue and gold ribbons while chanting the Axe yell, which was based on The Frogs by Aristophanes ( Brekekekek croax croax ):
Aristophanes and pokes
As in his other early plays, Aristophanes pokes satirical fun at the demagogue Cleon but in The Wasps he also ridicules one of the Athenian institutions that provided Cleon with his power-base: the law courts.
Aristophanes and fun
( ii ) Aristophanes read that comic poets did not make fun of the demos, and so accepted the challenge and wrote the Knights ;
Aristophanes and at
In the Symposium, Agathon is presented as the friend of the comic poet Aristophanes, but this alleged friendship did not prevent Aristophanes from harshly criticizing Agathon in at least two of his comic plays: the Thesmophoriazousae and the ( now lost ) Gerytades.
At Sparta women competed in public exercise — so in Aristophanes ' Lysistrata the Athenian women admire the tanned, muscular bodies of their Spartan counterparts — and women could own property in their own right, as they could not at Athens.
Linguistically, the association of horse ownership with social status extends back at least as far as ancient Greece, where many aristocratic names incorporated the Greek word for horse, like Hipparchus and Xanthippe ; the character Pheidippides in Aristophanes ' Clouds has his grandfather's name with hipp-inserted to sound more aristocratic.
He was aware of and commented on Greek satire, but at the time did not label it as such, although today the origin of satire is considered to be Aristophanes ' Old Comedy.
From the earliest times, at least since the plays of Aristophanes, the primary topics of literary satire are politics, religion and sex.
While this is at variance with the depictions by Plato and Xenophon, two of Socrates ' students, it is plausible that Aristophanes ' parody of Socrates is more accurate than their panegyrics.
Lyrics by his uncle, Simonides, and his rival, Pindar, were known in Athens and were sung at parties, they were parodied by Aristophanes and quoted by Plato, but no trace of Bacchylides ' work can be found until the Hellenistic age, when Callimachus began writing some commentaries on them.
* Aristophanes of Byzantium, Greek scholar, critic and grammarian, becomes the chief librarian at Alexandria.
* Following the death of Aristophanes of Byzantium, Aristarchus of Samothrace becomes librarian at Alexandria.
Produced by Callistratus, it wins Aristophanes a first prize at the Lenaea.
Cyrene is also mentioned in the second and third hymns of Callimachus as well as in The Poet and the Women ( written by Aristophanes ) whence Mnesilochus comments that he " can't see a man there at all-only Cyrene " when setting eyes upon the poet Agathon who emerges from his house to greet Euripides and himself dressed in women's clothing.
This agrees with the statement of the scholiast on Aristophanes, that at Melite there was a statue of Heracles (), the work of Ageladas the Argive, which was set up during the great pestilence ( Olympiad lxxxvii.
The most probable solution of the difficulty is that of Friedrich Thiersch, who thinks that there were two artists of this name ; one an Argive, the instructor of Phidias, born about 540 BC, the other a native of Sicyon, who flourished at the date assigned by Pliny and was confounded by the scholiast on Aristophanes with his more illustrious namesake of Argos.
Tragic poets sometimes produced their plays in other cities ( Euripides ' play Andromache for example was possibly performed in Argos just before The Clouds appeared at the City Dionysia ) yet comic poets in Aristophanes ' time wrote specifically for local audiences and their plays were studded with topical jokes that only a local audience could understand.
He was at the height of his power when Aristophanes attacked him in his plays ( line 549 ), meteorological omens had warned Athens not to trust him and the gods will favour Athens once more after he is punished for corruption ( 581-91 ).
* 427 BC: Aristophanes produced his first play The Banqueters at the City Dionysis.
* 424 BC: Aristophanes won first prize at the Lenaia with The Knights
He had prosecuted Aristophanes for an earlier play, The Babylonians, but an attempt at political censorship during a time of war was not necessarily motivated by personal malice or ambition on Cleon's part-the play depicted the cities of the Athenian League as slaves grinding at a mill and it had been performed at the City Dionysia in the presence of foreigners.
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