Aristophanes

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  Greek Drama Chapter 6
  

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  Humour in Aristophanes’ plays
  
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  Aristophanes: Humour
  

Watch the video ‘Blackadder’ (Beer). Identify as many different types of humour as you can. Choose from:

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  Greek Drama (Oxford History of the Classical World)
  
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  Aristophanes and his Background
  
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  Biography
  
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  Aristophanes: Plays and Events
  
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  Aims of Aristophanic Comedy
  

Xanthius

(Wasps, p42)

Aeschylus

(Frogs, p193)

Aeschylus

(Frogs, p196)

Aeschylus

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  Greek Drama Chapter 4 & 5
  

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  Aristophanes and Greek Politics
  
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  The Athens of Aristophanes and Socrates
  
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  From Solon to Socrates
  
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  Aristophanes’ Attitude to Politics and Politicians
  
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  Aristophanes, Athens and Attic Old Comedy
  
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  The Peloponnesian War I
  
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  Athenian Democracy and the Law Courts
  
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  Comparison Athens / NZ
  

Put each of the events into chronological order and insert a date for each.

Brief notes to explain:

1. 
   Why the war began.
   

2. 
   The Plague of 430 and 429 BC.
   

3. 
   Cleon. Who was he and why did Aristophanes not like him?
   

4. 
   The Peace of Nicias 421 BC.
   

5. 
   Alcibiades
   

6. 
   The Sicilian Expedition. What happened?
   

7. 
   The Oligarchy. When? Who were they? What did they do?
   

8. 
   The final acts of the war. Brief summary.
   

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  Dionysia and Lenaea
  
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  Greek Theatre
  
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  The Festival of the Great Dionysia,
  

FESTIVAL OF THE GREAT DIONYSIA REFER: Taylor: Acting and the Stage, Chapter 2 pp26-29