Cratinus was a highly successful writer of Attic Old Comedy, but the very fragmentary nature of his surviving plays means that he is not as well remembered as Aristophanes (eleven of whose plays come down to us intact). https://www.worldhistory.org/article/794/the-plays-of-cratinus/ #History #Aeschylus #Aristophanes #Cratinus

Plutus (aka Wealth) is a play written by the great Greek comedy playwright Aristophanes in 388 BCE. https://www.worldhistory.org/Plutus/ #History #Aristophanes #Ecclesiazusae #GreekComedy

What is it that lovers most deeply desire? Aristophanes gives us one answer in Plato's Symposium. Here's a short taken from one of my classes discussing that bit of the text!

https://youtube.com/shorts/C59qQI0a1mQ
#Short #Video #Symposium #Aristophanes #Love #Desire #Unity #Fusion #Philosophy

Here's a new short taken from one of my Intro to Philosophy class sessions,. This one is about the Old Comedy that Aristophanes was a master of in ancient Athens.

https://youtube.com/shorts/YaVyAhP9Jgg
#Short #Philosophy #Symposium #Comedy #Aristophanes #Literature #Drama #Poetry

Lysistrata was the third and final of the peace plays written by the great Greek comic playwright Aristophanes (c. https://www.worldhistory.org/Lysistrata/ #History #Aristophanes #GreekComedy #GreekTheatre

The Clouds is a comedy written c. 423 BCE by the Greek playwright Aristophanes (c. 448 BCE – c. 385 BCE). A failure at the Dionysia competition, finishing third out of three, it was revised later in 418 BCE but never produced in the author's lifetime.https://www.worldhistory.org/The_Clouds/ #Aristophanes #GreekComedy #GreekLiterature #History

Aristophanes (c. 460 - c. 380 BCE) was the most famous writer of Old Comedy plays in ancient Greece and his surviving works are the only examples of that style.https://www.worldhistory.org/Aristophanes/ #Aristophanes #GreekComedy #GreekLiterature #History

Cratinus was a highly successful writer of Attic Old Comedy, but the very fragmentary nature of his surviving plays means that he is not as well remembered as Aristophanes (eleven of whose plays come down to us intact). Despite this, it is possible to uncover significant information regarding this sometimes forgotten comic poet by looking at his own comic fragments, what Aristophanes says about...https://www.worldhistory.org/article/794/the-plays-of-cratinus/ #Aeschylus #Aristophanes #Cratinus

The Wasps is a play written by the lone representative of Ancient Greece's Old Attic Comedy, Aristophanes (c. 445 - c. 386 BCE). It won second place at the Lenaea competition in 422 BCE. Written in two acts, the play focuses on a reoccurring theme, the tension between the old and new.
https://www.worldhistory.org/The_Wasps/ #Aristophanes #GreekComedy #GreekTheatre

Here's the #postcard, courtesy of #aristophanes

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"A #modern day #adaptation of the ancient #Greek play Lysistrata by #Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of #gang #violence in #Chicago, Illinois[…]"

https://libremdb.pussthecat.org/title/tt4594834/

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