CLST 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Komos, Pheidippides, Pub Crawl
22 Nov 2017
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A funny thing happened on the way to the. Comedy derives its name from -edy meaning song and komoswhich translates to pub crawl. Ends in a party, often a wedding-feast in which the hero marries some principle like peace, leaving the melodrama for the poor. Strepsiades attempts to learn how to get out of his debts from socrates. Final komos is dark and consists of him burning down the thinkery. Rhetorical debate between the alazon and eiron in which the alazon always wins. Eiron is a good guy and must always win which he does by driving the alazon away by force in a slapstick = exodus. Moment when the chorus takes off their masks, steps out of their role, and addresses the audience directly. Strepsiades convinces pheidippides to do a horrible thing to save his father. Birds follows the classic old comedy shape.
