14 Aristophanes - Lysistrata, Clouds, Acharnians, Birds & Knights

Question 1

Acharnians

Answer 1

Acharnians (ah-char-knee-ins): the farmers of Acharnae, outside of Athens, who didn’t want peace with Sparta.

Question 2

Amphitheus, in The Acharnians

Answer 2

Amphitheus (amp-fuh-thee-us): the demi-god son of Demeter; brokered the private peace treaty.

Question 3

Cleon, in The Acharnians

Answer 3

Cleon: an Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War

Question 4

Dikaiopolis, in The Acharnians

Answer 4

Dikaiopolis (dee-ky-op-oh-lis): an Athenian citizen who strongly opposed the war against Sparta

Question 5

Lampito, in The Lysistrata

Answer 5

Lampito: the Spartan counterpart of Lysistrata (Lis-sis-trada)

Question 6

Lysistrata

Answer 6

Lysistrata (Lis-sis-trada): She who disbands armies; a wise woman on domestic and political issues.

Question 7

Pericles

Answer 7

Pericles (PEH ruh kleez): Greek statesman and general during the Greco-Persian wars

Question 8

Pheidippides, in The Clouds

Answer 8

Pheidippides (phy-duh-pies): is Strepsiades’s (streph-shu-deez) high-rolling son. Attends Socrates school and uses Unjust Logic to cast his father out of the family home.

Question 9

Strepsiades, in The Clouds

Answer 9

Strepsiades (streph-shu-deez): an Athenian farmer who attends Socrates’s school. Is saddled with the debts of his playboy son, Pheidippides (phy-duh-pies).

Question 10

Lysistrata Pronunciation

Answer 10

(Lis-sis-trada)

Question 11

Epops aka, in The Birds

Answer 11

Epops aka (eh-pops): Hooopoe (who-pooh)

Question 12

Euelpides, in The Birds

Answer 12

Euelpides (you-uhl-puh-dees): traveling companion and friend of Pisthetaerus (piss-thuh-terrace)

Question 13

Hoopoe, in The Birds

Answer 13

Hoopoe (who-pooh): former prince, slept with sister-in-law; was turned into this bird

Question 14

Pisthetaerus, in The Birds

Answer 14

Pisthetaerus (piss-thuh-terrace): old Greek who leaves Athens because of taxes and corruption. Becomes ‘king’ of the utopian bird-realm.