The play is notable for its joyous anticipation of peace and for its celebration of a return to an idyllic life in the countryside. However, it also sounds a note of caution, there is bitterness in the memory of lost opportunities and the ending is not happy for everyone.
The play is notable for its joyous anticipation of peace and for its celebration of a return to an idyllic life in the countryside. However, it also s...
The play features an elderly Athenian citizen, Chremylos, and his slave Cario or Carion. Chremylos presents himself and his family as virtuous but poor, and has accordingly gone to seek advice from an oracle.
The play features an elderly Athenian citizen, Chremylos, and his slave Cario or Carion. Chremylos presents himself and his family as virtuous but poo...
The play is notable for its absurd humour, its imaginative appeal for an end to the Peloponnesian War and for the authors spirited response to condemnations of his previous play, The Babylonians, by politicians such as Cleon, who had reviled it as a slander against the Athenian polis.
The play is notable for its absurd humour, its imaginative appeal for an end to the Peloponnesian War and for the authors spirited response to condemn...
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.
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 institutio...
The Clouds can be considered not only the worlds first extant comedy of ideas but also a brilliant and successful example of that genre. The play gained notoriety for its caricature of the philosopher Socrates ever since its mention in Platos Apology as a factor contributing to the old mans trial and execution.
The Clouds can be considered not only the worlds first extant comedy of ideas but also a brilliant and successful example of that genre. The play gain...
Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These 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.
Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they...
The play is a satire on the social and political life of classical Athens during the Peloponnesian War and in this respect it is typical of all the dramatists early plays. It is unique however in the relatively small number of its characters and this was due to its scurrilous preoccupation with one man, the pro-war populist Cleon.
The play is a satire on the social and political life of classical Athens during the Peloponnesian War and in this respect it is typical of all the dr...
It is now considered one of Aristophanes most brilliant parodies of Athenian society, with a particular focus on the subversive role of women in a male-dominated society, the vanity of contemporary poets, such as the tragic playwrights Euripides and Agathon, and the shameless, enterprising vulgarity of an ordinary Athenian, as represented in this play by the protagonist, Mnesilochus.
It is now considered one of Aristophanes most brilliant parodies of Athenian society, with a particular focus on the subversive role of women in a mal...
