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Greek Literature (Comedy)
The Age of Comedy (Aristophanes/Menander)
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Classics
10th Grade
02/12/2009

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The Archanians
[Aristophanes]
Definition
Leader of Athens has the god Amphitheus negotiate peace with sparta
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The Knights
[Aristophanes]
Definition
Nicias decides to supplant Cleon with a worse demagogue.
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The Clouds
[Aristophanes]
Definition
Socrates equips phillip with skill to dupe Strepsiades, his father.
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The Wasps
[Aristophanes]
Definition
Philcleon claims he must serve jury duty
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The Birds
[Aristophanes]
Definition
Athenians disgusted with Athens seek a utopia with avine creatures.
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The Thesmophoriazusae
[Aristophanes]
Definition
Euripides learns that women conspire revenge for his satirization of their gender and attempts to persuade Agathon, a fellow playwright, to dress as a woman.
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Lysistrata
[Aristophanes]
Definition
Women holds sex from their husbands to stop fighting.
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The Frogs
[Aristophanes]
Definition
Dionysus goes to hades to get a good tragedian because the current ones are so bad.
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The Eccleiazusae (The Assembly Women)
[Aristophanes]
Definition
Praxagora replaces men on the Athenian Assembly with women in the hopes that they will do a better job.
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Plutus
[Aristophanes]
Definition
Attack on mankind for using any means to grow wealthy
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The Curmudgeon
[Menander]
Definition
Ill tempered father allows his daughter to marry a rich young suitor.
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