CLAS 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9-10: Oligarchy, Thesmophoria, Aeschylus

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

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Chapter 9 the peloponnesian war: a tale of thucydides: Thucydides and the writing of the peloponnesian war: Thucydides the athenian wrote up the war between the peloponnesians and the athenians . Chapter 10 stage and law court in late fifth-century athens: Introduction: three athenian contemporaries are the subject of this chapter: the tragic dramatist euripides, the comic poet aristophanes, and the philosopher socrates. Aristophanes: the world of euripidean drama is entirely new, its novelty only enhanced by contrast with the rigid dramatic from to whose traditional requirements euripides strictly adhered. Euripidean tragedy, with its interests in the erotic and its lowering of tragedy"s heroic tone, is beginning to encroach upon the territory of proper to comedy. In 411 bc, aristophanes presented his funniest comedy, a play that is saturated with. 399 bc: only a few months previously had he fought as a hoplite in one of the early battles of the.