FROGS Flashcards
quotes (41 cards)
highlights inflaction and political comm debasementent about coin (coins had to be melted in the peleponeasian war)
in a tiny boat, an old man- a sailor- will take you across, once he’s paid. it cost two obles
Xanthias not fighting
not me , im afraid. I happened to have a bit of an eye infection at the time’
breaking the 4th wall, Dionysus would have been talking about the priest of Dionysus sat in the front frow in the prohedria
priest save me! Ill get you a drink after the show
reference to kleon
the politician who takes a bite out of a comic playwrights/ earnings when mocked in our/ traditional worhsip of Dionysus
satirise politicians often deplorable attempts to make a u turn
taking a u turn- in the mark of a sharp cookie’
blatant experssion of the rule of theatre
it is right for the holy chorus to encourage and instruct the city on whats good for it
city and coins
ive always thought our city treats her finest citizens like coins….gold…these coins are first class… but rather than them, we use these base bronze things.. It’s the same with politicians. The ones who know to be noble , wise and just.. these men we chuck aside. Instead, its the base metalled copper topped foreigners and criminals we rely on for everything, the scum of the earth.
X and plutos slave
‘and a bit of snooping/// god theres nothing better
Euripides about Aeschylus
‘i know him and saw through him long ago- a crude, stubborn brute
while the agon is serious the play is still a comedy and Aeschylus reminds us of this
its a device emblazoned on a ship, you complete ignoramus
Euripides sees himself as a champion of the common voice.
‘i would let no character remain idle. In my plays , slaves and women, young and old, would speak just as much as their master
A believes that E plays are over sexualised and his are far more ‘nobler’ such as ‘war ‘‘weaponry’ ‘honour’
‘and by zeus my plays did not include tarts….no one can say there’s anything erotic in the women I have created. Whereas Aphrodite laid full on siege to you and your plays. she was your downfall.
A believing he has degraded high order
you dressed kings in rags and make them seem more pitiable to people
D interjects with comedy breaking up tension
how to fart in the face of the rower below
D describing how he chooses
i came down for a poet. Why? So that the city could be saved and put on plays. Whoever seems more likely to give usefull advise to the city, he’s the one I think I should take
A on Alcibiades
one shouldn’t raise a lion cub in the city, but once its grown.
E on Alcibiades
when we trust what we now mistrust, and when we mistrust what we now trust
A on advise to city
how can anyone save a city like that, when it rejects both the cloak and the goatskin
Dionysus Toilet Humour
Prologue: I am really feeling the squeeze
Dionysus Vulgar Humour
Prologue: Shift your pole around and say you need a dump
Dionysus Mocked by Heracles
Prolouge: I can’t stop laughing - look at that lionskin on top of your little yellow number
Heracles mocks Dionysus using a topical refrence
Well, you were with Cleisthenes. (openly gay known for being a bottom)
