Scholarship Flashcards
(18 cards)
audience intention
Macdowell on the gods
“Aristophanes is using the gods as comic characters and wants the audience to laugh at them… does not necessarily mean that he and the audience do not believe in their real existence. “
rule of three
Russel on Dionysus
“Dionysus in frogs is by turn coward, buffoon and literary critic”
Bettendorf on function
“the primary function of the play isn’t literary criticism but political action”
humanity
Cartledge on Dionysus
“trespassed too far on the human side… to be considered a god.”
size
Hall on politicians
“[Aristophanes] cuts them down to size with ridicule.”
sensible
Macdowell on the gods
“assumed to be sensible enough to take a joke”
Halliwell on the un-seriousness of Frogs
“grotesquely masked, padded, and phallically equipped actors.”
Redfield on the win of Aeschylus
“rejection of the new life-style, a return to the old moral centre.”
“Aristophanes is using the gods as comic characters and wants the audience to laugh at them… does not necessarily mean that he and the audience do not believe in their real existence. “
Macdowell on the gods
“Dionysus in frogs is by turn coward, buffoon and literary critic”
rule of three
Russel on Dionysus
“the primary function of the play isn’t literary criticism but political action”
Bettendorf on function
“trespassed too far on the human side… to be considered a god.”
humanity
Cartledge on Dionysus
“[Aristophanes] cuts them down to size with ridicule.”
size
Hall on politicians
“assumed to be sensible enough to take a joke”
Macdowell on the gods
“grotesquely masked, padded, and phallically equipped actors.”
Halliwell on the un-seriousness of Frogs
“rejection of the new life-style, a return to the old moral centre.”
Redfield on the win of Aeschylus
back up with quotation
Dover on Aristophanes poltical messaging
“Weren’t they all noble and tall-…
“old ways good, new ways bad”, as Aristophanes writes, not the shirkers and layabouts, the cheats and villains you see today.”
“old ways good, new ways bad”, as Aristophanes writes, not the shirkers and layabouts, the cheats and villains you see today.”
back up with quotation
Dover on Aristophanes poltical messaging
“Weren’t they all noble and tall-…
