Frogs Flashcards
(10 cards)
“The primary function of the play, however, is not literary criticism but political action”
Bettendorf
“Aristophanes’ form of comedy is intimately related to democracy”
Hall
“Most flagrantly misrepresented is Aechylus”
Ruffell
“Aeschylus could be said to win, solely by virtue of having the last word”
Ruffell
Aristophanes’ humour is “one which the literary critics, or even the people who simply read the plays, may find hard to imagine” due to the visual comedy
Morton
“We can laugh as much as the Athenians in the Athens of the fifth century BC did at the visual humour of Aristophanes”
Moreton
Tha agōn is about “old ways good, new ways bad”
Dover
“Xanthias in frogs has greater strength of character than any earlier slave in Greek theatre”
MacDowell
“generally reckoned to be the finest of Aristophanes’ plays”
Cartledge
“tragedy is much easier to write than comedy”
Burian
