41. The Clouds An analysis of the play by aristophanes. http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/bates025.html

THE CLOUDS An analysis of the play by Aristophanes This document was originally published in The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, vol. 2 . ed. Alfred Bates. London: Historical Publishing Company, 1906. pp. 26-27. The play of the Clouds Euripides introduced into tragedy; he was the friend of several of the sophists; it was in his character of dialectician that he was courted by ambitious young men; he was the tutor of Alcibiades; his singular manners and his slovenliness had every appearance of affectation, and if we add that he was the only one of the eminent sophists who was an Athenian-born, we shall not wonder that Aristophanes selected him as the representative of the class. The other prominent characters are a father and son, the latter obviously intended for Alcibiades, and also as a general personification of the young profligates of the day, only wanting a little sophistical education to make him throw aside every moral restraint. His silly father supplies the remedy for this defect, and is the first to suffer from the weapon which he has placed in his son's hand. The Clouds was chiefly a general exhibition of the corrupt state of education at Athens, and of its causes; it was a loudly uttered protest on the part of Aristophanes against the useless and pernicious speculations of the sophists, and was not intended, as some would have us believe, to pave the way for the accusation which was many years afterward brought against Socrates as a corrupter of youth, whatever may have been its effect upon the verdict of the dicasts at the trial. It gained only third prize and was unfavorably received at the great

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43. The Internet Classics Archive | The Clouds By Aristophanes Complete text of the play by aristophanes. http://classics.mit.edu/Aristophanes/clouds.html

Home Browse and Comment Search ... Help The Clouds By Aristophanes Commentary: Many comments have been posted about The Clouds Download: A 86k text-only version is available for download The Clouds By Aristophanes Written 419 B.C.E Dramatis Personae STREPSIADES PHIDIPPIDES SERVANT OF STREPSIADES DISCIPLES OF SOCRATES SOCRATES JUST DISCOURSE UNJUST DISCOURSE PASIAS, a Money-lender AMYNIAS, another Money-lender CHORUS OF CLOUDS Scene In the background are two houses, that of Strepsiades and that of Socrates, the Thoughtery. The latter is small and dingy; the in, terior of the former is shown and two beds are seen, each occupied. STREPSIADES sitting up Great gods! will these nights never end? will daylight never come? I heard the cock crow long ago and my slaves are snoring still! Ah! Ah! It wasn't like this formerly. Curses on the war! has it not done me ills enough? Now I may not even chastise my own slaves. Again there's this brave lad, who never wakes the whole long night, but, wrapped in his five coverlets, farts away to his heart's content. He lies down Come! let me nestle in well and snore too, if it be possible....oh! misery

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45. The Clouds An introduction to the play by aristophanes. http://www.theatredatabase.com/ancient/aristophanes_006.html

Home Ancient Theatre Medieval Theatre 16th Century ... Email Us THE CLOUDS an introduction to the play by Aristophanes T HE satire in The Clouds The Acharnians The play was produced at the Great Dionysia in 423 B.C., but proved unsuccessful, Cratinus and Amipsias being awarded first and second prize. This is said to have been due to the intrigues and influence of Alcibiades, who resented the caricature of himself presented in the sporting Phidippides. A second edition of the drama was apparently produced some years later, to which the 'Parabasis' of the play as we possess it must belong, as it refers to events subsequent to the date named. This article is reprinted from Aristophanes: The Eleven Comedies . Trans. Anonymous. London: The Athenian Society, 1922. RELATED WEBSITES The Clouds - Analysis of the play by Aristophanes.

46. Aristophanes - Greek Writer Aristophanes aristophanes was a Greek writer of old comedy who is known for his plays about current events, including the war between Athens and Sparta, and Socrates. http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/aristophanescomedy/g/Aristophanes.htm

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47. Aristophanes aristophanes and the Old Comedy from The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton TRUE COMEDY, said Voltaire, is the speaking picture of the Follies and Foibles of a Nation. http://www.english.emory.edu/DRAMA/Aristophanes.html

Aristophanes and the Old Comedy from The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton "TRUE COMEDY," said Voltaire, "is the speaking picture of the Follies and Foibles of a Nation." He had Aristophanes in mind, and no better description could be given of the Old Comedy of Athens. To read Aristophanes is in some sort like reading an Athenian comic paper. All the life of Athens is there: the politics of the day and the politicians; the war party and the anti-war party; pacifism, votes for women, free trade, fiscal reform, complaining taxpayers, educational theories, the current religious and literary talk everything, in short, that interested the average citizen. All was food for his mockery. He was the speaking picture of the follies and foibles of his day. The mirror he holds up to the age is a different one from that held up by Socrates. To turn to the Old Comedy from Plato is a singular experience. What has become of that company of courteous gentlemen with their pleasant ways and sensitive feelings and fastidious tastes? Not a trace of them is to be found in these boisterous plays, each coarser and more riotous than the last. To place them in the audience is much more difficult than to imagine Spenser or Sir Philip Sidney listening to Pistol and Doll Tearsheet, just to the degree that Elizabeth's court was on a lower level of civilization than the circle around Pericles, and Aristophanes capable of more kinds of vulgarity and indecency than Shakespeare ever dreamed of.

48. Aristophanes Collection At Bartleby.com aristophanes. Bartleby.com And tell me this of all the roads you know, / Which is the quickest way to get to Hades? http://www.bartleby.com/people/Aristph.html

49. The Wasps Brief analysis of the play by aristophanes. http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/bates030.html

THE WASPS An analysis of the play by Aristophanes This document was originally published in The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, vol. 2 . ed. Alfred Bates. London: Historical Publishing Company, 1906. pp. 29-30. The Wasps was brought out in the name of Philonides, and was performed at the Lenaea, in 422 B.C. As the objects of the Clouds was to attack the prevailing vices of the young men of the day and to stigmatize the love of disputation, which was so prevalent in Athens, the purpose of the Wasps was to satirize the love of litigation common to the Athenians, whose delight it was to spend their time in the law-courts and to live on the judicial fees which Pericles had established, and which Cleon was pledged to maintain. There are many points in which the Clouds and the Wasps supplement one another, and there is a unity of design between them which cannot be mistaken. A father and his son are the principle characters in both. In the Wasps , the father, Philocleon, who, as his name denotes, is warmly attached to Cleon, has surrendered the management of his affairs to his son Bdelucleonthe word meaning the detester of Cleon. The son regrets his father's fondness for judicial business, and weans him from it partly by establishing a law-court at home, in which the house-dog is tried for stealing a Sicilian cheese, with all the formalities of a regular process in the dicasterion. In the second half of the play Philocleon is induced to turn his attention to music and literature, whereupon he is congratulated by the chorus. An eminent modern scholar has pronounced the

50. Aristophanes Quotes - The Quotations Page This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Aristophanes/

Quotation Search by keyword or author: Home Weblog Quotes of the Day Motivational ... Read books online at our other site: The Literature Page Quotations by Author Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC) Greek Athenian comic dramatist [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 8 of 8 total A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. Aristophanes High thoughts must have high language. Aristophanes Frogs, 405 B.C. - More quotations on: [ Language Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh? Aristophanes Frogs, 405 B.C. You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. Aristophanes Knights, 424 B.C. - More quotations on: [ Politicians A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. Aristophanes Plutus, 388 B.C. - More quotations on: [ Home Under every stone lurks a politician. Aristophanes Thesmophoriazusae, 410 B.C. - More quotations on: [ Politicians Let each man exercise the art he knows. Aristophanes Wasps, 422 B.C. - More quotations on: [ Art This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought

51. Thesmophoriazusae, Or A Women's Festival Summary and analysis of the play by aristophanes. http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/bates028.html

THESMOPHORIAZUSAE, OR A WOMEN'S FESTIVAL A summary and analysis of the play by Aristophanes This document was originally published in The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, vol. 2 . ed. Alfred Bates. London: Historical Publishing Company, 1906. pp. 24-26. The Thesmophoriazusae , which followed the Lysistrata during the reign of terror established by oligarchist conspirators, has a proper intrigue, a knot which is not untied till quite the end, and in this it possesses a great advantage. Euripides , on account of the well-known misogyny of his tragedies, is accused and sentenced to condign punishment at the festival of the Thesmophoria, at which women alone might be present. After a vain attempt to excite the effeminate poet, Agathon Aristophanes possessed a specific talent for translating the poetry of this tragedian into comedy. On the other hand, the fact that the Athenian audience should at once appreciate the parody, proves that they were perfectly familiar with the scenes and lines of Euripides. As a literary public they were unsurpassed in any age. Purchase Thesmophoriazusae FURTHER STUDIES: The Thesmophoriazusae - An introduction to the play.

52. Aristophanes (c. 444-380 B.C.) A biography of the Greek dramatist aristophanes; includes a list of related links. http://www.usefultrivia.com/biographies/aristophanes_001.html

ARISTOPHANES Of the great comic poet of antiquity, though he has left us a vivid picture of his own personality, of what he loved, and what he despised, we know almost nothing with any certainty. He flourished about half a century after the great epoch of Athenian glory, and has given us immortal sketches of the Republic as it hastened to its speedy decline. Of his own life we know little more than this ARISTOPHANES , the son of Philippus, was probably an Athenian, born about 444 B.C. He was a lover of pleasure and of society, and is introduced as one of the brilliant revellers in Plato's Banquet . He won a prize with his first comedy in 427 B.C., soon after the opening of the Peloponnesian war, when he was still a lad under age. He continued to exhibit comedies over a period of 40 years; it is said that he produced 54, of which 11 only survive. He left three sons, all comic poets: and he died about 380 B.C., when Athens had lost all political importance, and all her great men except Plato and his followers. Aristophanes was the unrivalled master of the Old Comedy Socrates , and masters of tenderness like Euripides . Cleon the demagogue, Euripides the sentimentalist, and Socrates the type of the critical sophist, are the constant objects of his ridicule. In all these attacks there is much that is blind, not a little that is unfair. But to an earnest conservative like the poet, Cleon embodied the follies and conceit of democracy; Euripides, the taste for morbid rhetoric in poetry; and Socrates, the Rousseauism of antiquity, which subjected every established belief to a metaphysical criticism.

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The Literature Network Authors: 261 Books: 2,949 Forum Members: 71,085 Forum Posts: 863,502 Subscribe Teacher Accounts with student management and more. Home Authors Shakespeare Bible ... Subscriber Login addthis_pub = 'ChrisWebPub'; Literature Network Aristophanes Aristophanes Search all of Aristophanes Advanced Search Biography Quizzes Forum Discussions Aristophanes (c.448 B.C.�c.388 B.C) , Greek playwright and comic poet, whose surviving plays are the only extant examples of Greek Old Comedy. Exact details of his birthplace and life are not known, but most likely he was educated in and lived in Athens. Besides his many dramatic works, much poetry is attributed to him. Many of Aristophane's rollicking comedies were written for and performed during the religious festivals Dionysia and Lenea. The Acharnians (425) was one of many to win him first prize. The Knights (424), with Aristophanes himself acting as Cleon, is a controversial and unapologetic attack of the demagogue Cleon. The Clouds (423) critical of the Sophists, contains the famous scene of the Just and the Unjust argument, the cloud-maidens representative of metaphysical meanderings. It was followed by

55. Aristophanes aristophanes (Ἀριστοφάνης, ca. 446 – ca. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus,2 was a prolific and much acclaimed comic http://pediaview.com/openpedia/Aristophanes

Aristophanes As imagined by a 19th century illustrator. It may be inferred from jests in the plays, however, that the real Aristophanes was prematurely bald Extant plays: The Acharnians 425 BC The Knights 424 BC ... Ecclesiazusae c. 392 BC Wealth II 388 BC Aristophanes , ca. 446 – ca. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a prolific and much acclaimed comic playwright of ancient Athens . Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy , and they are in fact used to define the genre. Also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author. His powers of ridicule were feared and acknowledged by influential contemporaries - Plato singled out Aristophanes' play The Clouds as slander contributing to the trial and execution of Socrates although other satirical playwrights had caricatured the philosopher. His second play

56. Lysistrata By Aristophanes - Make Love, Not War About.com article discussing the plot and layers of gender-bending in aristophanes sex-comedy. http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa030999.htm

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57. Notes On Aristophanes' Wasps History and analysis of aristophanes play The Wasps. http://chss.montclair.edu/classics/WASPSNTS.HTML

Notes on the Wasps of Aristophanes, probably put on in 422 B.C. In 422 B.C. Aristophanes was a well known comic poet and had won first prize a number of times in the annual poetic contest. In several of the plays he had made savage attacks on Cleonm for example, his Knights Since the rate of jury pay was so low, old people and others who could find no other employment became professional jurors, and thus a large number of court cases to try was in their interest. Note how Philocleon describes how he and his fellows act during a trial; they like the power they have, and how the powerful grovel; worse, note how Philocleon admits that if .........a father on his death-bed names some husband for his daughter, who is his sole heir; but we care little for his will or for the shell so solemnly placed over the seal; we give the young maiden to him who has best known how to secure our favor. Name me another duty that is so important and so irresponsible In other words, the jury is able to ignore the law at will. We should also remember that this play was produced during the Peloponnesian war with Sparta. This was a time of deprivation, and greater than normal poverty. Goverment officals were tempted to get money by convicting some wealthy citizen and take all his property as part of the punishment. Indeed, prosecutors would sometimes tell the jury that, unless the accused was convicted, they would not get their jury pay! Further, since this was wartime, and there were deep political conflicts among the Athenians, rumors of conspiracies abounded, as the play itself hints. Some people made a living by blackmailing the wealthy by saying that, unless they were paid off, they would claim that they had evidence of their traitorous activities. Others people would accept payment to falsely accuse political enemies. All this poverty, suspicion and passion did not help the court process to become more just.

58. Aristophanes And Old Comedy aristophanes (ca. 448380 B.C.E) and OLD COMEDY. There are few reliable biographical facts about 5th Century Greek playwright aristophanes. We do know he was the son of http://www.wayneturney.20m.com/aristophanes.htm

Home Page Acting Resume Playwrighting Resume Directing Resume Teaching Resume Hickory Hideout Theatre Administration Biography Essays, etc. Olio Actor's Equity Association, SAG, AFTRA A Glimpse of Theater History ARISTOPHANES (ca. 448-380 B.C.E) and OLD COMEDY There are few reliable biographical facts about 5th Century Greek playwright Aristophanes. We do know he was the son of Phillippus whom many believe was a wealthy man, a supposition based on Aristophanes' conservative attitudes in The Knights. However, his fondness for the rustic man of good sense and his opposition to the ruling war class may mean just the opposite. (My view.) In any case, Aristophanes was a crony of the intelligentsia. He shows up in an anecdote in Plato's Symposium wherein it is reported that Aristophanes out-drank and out-talked all the guests at an all night party and left in the wee hours debating with Socrates whether one man could be capable of writing both comedy and tragedy. Plato invented what John Gassner describes as "a delightful parable of love for him." Aristophanes must have enjoyed a friendly rivalry with the likes of Socrates and Euripides. It's fun to think of him as the passionate, hard living gadfly constantly challenging the established wisdom of his age. He certainly held an open animosity with the ruling political party focusing on its leader Kleon. [After the death of Perikles in 429 B.C.E., the foreign policy of Athens was determined by the triumvirate of Kleon, Nicias, and Alcibiades, each of whom attempted to revitalize Athens, but instead contributed to the defeat and eventual fall of the city.] In

59. The Parodos Of Aristophanes Knights Short research paper examining the identity of the chorus in a particular section of aristophanes comedy, The Knights. http://www.openuniversity.edu/Arts/CC99/Sidwell.htm

60. Aristophanes Definition Of Aristophanes In The Free Online Encyclopedia. aristophanes (ăr'ĭstŏf`ənēz), c.448 B.C.–c.388 B.C., Greek playwright, Athenian comic poet, greatest of the ancient writers of comedy comedy, literary work that aims http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Aristophanes

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