AR104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sarissa, Doric Order, Larnax
23 Sep 2013
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Komoid: a derived from komos: procession of revellers singing and dancing. Formed a separate competition at city dionysia. Attic comedy = choral sang alternating with dialogue. All male cast chorus of 24, 3/4 actors. Dealt with current political and social issues and personalities. Europe"s first and greatest writer of comedies. Lysistrata: disbander of armies ; resembles lysimakha; dissolving battles ; real-life priestess of athens polias for 64 years. Spartan lampito: go on a sex strike, take over control of treasury and acropolis. Chorus: 12 old men and 12 old women. Lysistrata: describes politics in term of wool-work. Demagogues: cater to the whims of the people. Most famous philosopher of the 5th cent. Sources: aristophanes" clouds the thinker , plato (429-347 bce) Greek paradox: inner beauty vs. external appearance (really smart but really ugly) 399 bce: charged with impiety (believing other gods) and corrupting the youth: political hostility, hostility against the sophists, hostility against socrates a gadfly (nasty bug)
