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Lysistrata Two Quotes Womens peithō how appraised Two Quotes Chorus Leader to Lysistrata Hail the bravest of all women Now you must be more besides Firm but soft highclass but lowbrow. Lysistrata By Aristophanes Dir Barbara Karger and Michael Preston Goodwin Theater Austin Arts Center Hartford 20 April 2006 Performance Parenthetical Reference Live performances dont have page numbers so d ont worry about them Put your parenthetica A DIFFERENT APPROACH. Women in Comedy. Women in Comedy are presented as lively, sexual, fun-loving, intelligent, cunning, sometimes devious, and much more interesting and complex than the caricatures which serious literature has created.. From . 5th . century . BCE. . Birdland. Definition. Aristotle describes the genre of comedy in . The Poetics.. Comedy represents men as worse than they are in real life, whereas tragedy shows them better.. A katabasis by. ARISTOPHANES. ATHENS. DEMOCRACY. Greece was usually ruled by kings or tyrants. Not all of them were totally bad, but still… Democracy (rule of the demos) gradually developed in Athens after 600 BC. Citizenship was determined not by family but by districts called “demes.” Military-trained adult males could vote. Far more opportunities for citizen participation than today. Anyone can propose a law, start a trial, attend assembly or not.. Life of Alcibiades. Extreme . Charisma?. Preview Discussion. The . eros. . of . Alcibiades. 11-20 2012. Plutarch Alcibiades. 3. Eros, Zeus with thunderbolts.. “He had a golden shield made for him, which was emblazoned not with any ancestral device, but with the figure of Eros armed with a thunderbolt. Frogs. Drama to the Rescue?. Prologue: Chorus . to Demeter. “May I utter much that's funny, / and also much that’s serious” . (p. 79). Prologue: The Historical Situation. Political-military. Oligarchic coup of 411 BCE. Assemblywomen. Persuasion = Salvation?. Agenda. Epideixis. Final preview. Discussion. Aristophanes’ . Assemblywomen. and . peithō. Play and Context. Athens 404-387 BCE. Which Lens(. es. )?. Assemblywomen. Aristophanes’ . Ladies’ Day. Quote. “There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is . performatively. constituted by the very ‘expressions’ that are said to be its results” (Butler . Aristophanes’ . Knights. and the Politics of . Passion. Journal Question. Where . is on . the political spectrum . (democratic/oligarchic) do . you . locate . the ideological perspective informing the satire in . satiricalhumour, sexual humour, slapstick humour, verbal humour and bathos. The satirical humour that Aristophanes used was an attack on the current personalities of the time for example Cleon in Kni Lysistrata. Two Quotes. Women’s . peithō. , how appraised?. Two Quotes. Chorus Leader to Lysistrata:. Hail the bravest of all women!. Now you must be more besides:. Firm but soft, high-class but low-brow,. Sophistic Under . Attack. Agenda. Epideixis. Topoi. , Figures, Argumentation. Oral Report. Aristophanes’ . Clouds. In-Class Debate (+ Epideictic Exhibition). Better Argument versus Worse Argument. 21-Mar 2017. Aristophanes’ . Knights. and the Politics of Passion. Journal Question. Where . on . the political spectrum . (democratic/oligarchic) do . you . locate . the ideological perspective informing the satire in . Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their brilliant combination of fantasy and satire, their constantly inventive manipulation of language, and their use of absurd characters and plots to expose his society\'s institutions and values to the bracing challenge of laughter.This vibrant collection of verse translations of Aristophanes\' works combines historical accuracy with a sensitive attempt to capture the rich dramatic and literary qualities of Aristophanic comedy. The volume presents Clouds, with its famous caricature of the philosopher Socrates Women at the Thesmophoria (or Thesmophoriazusae), a work which mixes elaborate parody of tragedy with a great deal of transvestite burlesque and Frogs, in which the dead tragedians Aeschylus and Euripides engage in a vituperative contest of \'literary criticism\' of each other\'s plays. Featuring expansive introductions to each play and detailed explanatory notes, the volume also includes an illuminating appendix, which provides information and selected fragments from the lost plays of Aristophanes.