CLST 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Lysistrata, Aeschylus, Eupolis

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 100
• Professor: Fabio Colivicchi

Document Summary

Comedy: komoidia (lit. komos singing) = comedy, origins in the traditions of attike, rather than of other parts of the greek world, don"t know if saw comedies same day as tragedies, or if there were separate days for tragedy and comedy, but for the same festival, must have had forms of comedy before official introduction for festivals of. Dinoysos vases show proof that are 50 70 years earlier: old comedy 450 380 bce, know it pretty well, middle comedy 380 320 bce, know next to nothing, new comedy after 320, know some, division is based on themes and styles, as differences from one era to other. Structure of the old comedy: prologue: entry of the actors, plot introduced, parodos: entry of the chorus, a conflict develops, agon: alternating speeches and songs, parabasis: the chorus gives political advice, farcical scenes and self contained sketches, exodos: literally the departure: conclusion.