Balladeer’s Blog’s latest look at ancient Greek comedies deals with another work by Cratinus who, along with Aristophanes and Eupolis, constituted the Big 3 of Attic Old Comedy. This time around I’ll examine the comedy Plutoi, aka Wealth Gods and the way in which it dealt with issues that are still relevant to us over [...]
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ANCIENT GREEK COMEDY: PLUTOI (WEALTH GODS) C 429 BCE
Posted in Ancient Greek Comedy, tagged Ancient Greek Comedies, Aristophanes, bloated rich pigs, Class Warfare, Cratinus, George Soros, Occupy Wall Street, Ploutoi, plutoi, spoiled children of privilege, Wealth Gods, Wealthy pigs on May 2, 2012 | 10 Comments »
ANCIENT GREEK COMEDY: PYTINE (423 BCE)
Posted in Ancient Greek Comedy, tagged Ancient Greek, Ancient Greek Comedy, Aristophanes, Attic Old Comedy, Cratinus, Ed Wozniak, Pytine, Saturday Night Fever on February 10, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Cratinus as we all like to remember him Welcome to Balladeer’s Blog’s seventh post on ancient Greek comedies. If Pytine was an episode of Friends it would be titled The One Where Cratinus Fires Back At Aristophanes. This play is also known under English language titles like Wine Flask, Flagon, The Bottle, and others along [...]
ANCIENT GREEK COMEDY: THE KNIGHTS (424 B.C.E.)
Posted in Ancient Greek Comedy, tagged Ancient Greek Comedy, Aristophanes, Athens, Cleon, Cratinus, Lysistrata Jones, Solyndra, The Knights (comedy), Theater of Dionysus on January 16, 2012 | 10 Comments »
In Balladeer’s Blog’s 6th installment on ancient Greek comedies I will examine The Knights by Aristophanes. For background info on ancient Greek comedies see my original post on the topic: http://glitternight.com/2011/09/22/at-long-last-my-ancient-greek-comedy-posts-begin/ In The Knights Aristophanes pioneered a new sub-genre of Attic Old Comedy: the Demagogue Comedy. The villain of this masterpiece of political satire was a figure called [...]
ANCIENT GREEK COMEDIES: DIONYSALEXANDROS (C: 430′s BCE)
Posted in Ancient Greek Comedy, tagged Ancient Greek Comedy, Aristophanes, Cratinus, Dionysalexandros, Dionysus, Peloponnesian War, Samian War, Satyr Play on December 28, 2011 | 26 Comments »
For this 5th installment of my posts on Ancient Greek Comedies I’ll examine Dionysalexandros by Cratinus. For my post providing background info on ancient Greek comedies click here: http://glitternight.com/2011/09/22/at-long-last-my-ancient-greek-comedy-posts-begin/ Cratinus was one of the Big 3 in Attic Old Comedy along with Aristophanes and Eupolis, both of whom were much younger than he was. I chose Dionysalexandros [...]
ANCIENT GREEK COMEDY: DEMOI (C 417 BCE)
Posted in Ancient Greek Comedy, tagged Ancient Greek Comedy, Aristophanes, Attic Old Comedy, Communites by Eupolis, demes, Demoi, Eubulus, Eupolis, political satire on October 14, 2011 | 28 Comments »
FOR BACKGROUND INFORMATION IF YOU MISSED MY FIRST POST ON ANCIENT GREEK COMEDIES CLICK HERE: http://glitternight.com/2011/09/22/at-long-last-my-ancient-greek-comedy-posts-begin/ As promised this time around I’ll depart from the works of Aristophanes to examine the fragmentary remains of a work by another genius of Ancient Greek Comedy, in this case Eupolis. Eupolis was part of the Big Three of Ancient Greek [...]
ANCIENT GREEK COMEDY: THE CLOUDS (C 423 BCE)
Posted in Ancient Greek Comedy, tagged Ancient Greek Comedy, Attic Old Comedy, Aristophanes, Athens, Socrates, The Clouds, Sophist, Athenian democracy, satire on October 7, 2011 | 16 Comments »
FOR BACKGROUND INFORMATION IF YOU MISSED MY FIRST POST ON ANCIENT GREEK COMEDIES CLICK HERE: http://glitternight.com/2011/09/22/at-long-last-my-ancient-greek-comedy-posts-begin/ The Clouds was written by Aristophanes around 423 BCE and next to Lysistrata, which I examined last week, is the Big A’s most- discussed satire, mostly because of its lampooning of the philosopher Socrates, a contemporary of Aristophanes. Many [...]
ANCIENT GREEK COMEDY: LYSISTRATA (C: 411 BCE)
Posted in Ancient Greek Comedy, tagged Ancient Greek Comedy, Aristophanes, Athens, Lysistrata, Lysistrata Jones, Peloponnesian War on September 30, 2011 | 20 Comments »
FOR BACKGROUND INFORMATION IF YOU MISSED MY FIRST POST ON ANCIENT GREEK COMEDIES CLICK HERE: http://glitternight.com/2011/09/22/at-long-last-my-ancient-greek-comedy-posts-begin/ Lysistrata was written by the Big A himself, Aristophanes, and this comedy always makes a perfect introductory play for newcomers to Ancient Greek Comedy (henceforth AGC). Part of its accessibility to modern audiences obviously comes from the risque premise of the play, [...]
AT LONG LAST – MY ANCIENT GREEK COMEDY POSTS BEGIN!
Posted in Ancient Greek Comedy, tagged Ancient Greek Comedy, Aristophanes, Athenian playwrights, Attic Old Comedy, Cratinus, Eupolis, political satire, Susarion on September 22, 2011 | 18 Comments »
After months of feeling outrightly overwhelmed by how much information I want to share on this subject, I figured I’d better just get started and let the posts flow naturally. I could be organizing my thoughts on this topic from now until December 21st of next year (rimshot) and still not have an overall idea of the most efficient way [...]
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