Aristophanes quotes

Aristophanes ... Euripides cited from Thesmoro ... ... -R. TB, ELAC Theater consists of drama trilogy and porn drama Today 's three tragedy drama players remember Sophocles Euripides "Old Comedy" Aristophanes and Cratinus, three actors, choir songs and Participate in an audience of dance and sometimes dialogue choir speech - author's perspective Popular and powerful individuals including Riccicle God, Athens institution, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, "New Comedy" Menander Mask Upper + As important as Orchestra, the last act of Sophocles passed away in 406 BC, Tepis after 128 years won the first Athens drama contest, the golden age of the Greek drama is gradually disappearing. The theater will continue, but it will not return to the same creative height until Elizabeth England in 2000

Another playwright of this era is Greek comedian Aristophanes (about 450 BC - 386 BC) in Greece. The author of "Old comedy", his drama is ironic of the public and the situation, it is also a frank political criticism. 11 drama of Aristophanes survived with 32 titles and other works. His play includes the Knights, Lysistrata, the women of Thesmorphoria, frogs and clouds This play ridiculates the philosopher Socrates as a rhetorical teacher. His actor is often wearing grotesque masks and makes obscene jokes. Many of his plays are receiving moral or social lessons ridiculed by the literary and social life of Athens.

We got a contemporary view of Socrates from the playwright Aristophanes. In the drama "clouds", Aristophanes first appeared in 423 BC regarded Socrates as the master of a strange manga of "thinking" (or "theology"). He walked barefoot through the street of Athens, painted with his speech not to speak, "looking eyes" and "staring at the clouds". Socrates in the Cloud era should not be a serious threat to Athens' values ​​or democracy, but should be regarded as a characteristic of a harmless town. Obviously, Socrates himself has nothing to do with his depiction in the clouds. Pratachi said that he said that when I joked at the theater I saw Socrates' morality "I was in a good friend's party. Plato said at his seminar. Friendship dialogue between Socrates and Aristophanes