Drama and Dramatic Festivals in Ancient Greece

Question 1

Thesmophoriazusae 789

Answer 1

‘Why do you marry us, forbid us from leaving the house or even to be seen peeping outside?’

Question 2

Aristophanes Knights 165

Answer 2

The chief of the market the harbor and the pnyx, you will trample in the council and trim back the generals.’

Question 3

Aristophanes Knights 191

Answer 3

‘The leadership of the people is no longer a job for the educated man or one of good qualities but for one whos ignorant and foul.’

Question 4

Aristophanes clouds 381

Answer 4

So zeus is no more

Question 5

Euripides Hippolytus 8

Answer 5

‘I strike down all those who, stuffed with pride, disparage me

Question 6

Eurypides Hippolytus 617

Answer 6

‘O Zeus, why did you ever set women in our sunlit world to lead men astray.

Question 7

aristophanes clouds 105

Answer 7

theyre a worthless bunch[…] pale faced charlatans.’

Question 8

Old Oligarch 2.18

Answer 8

‘The person so treated in comedy does not, for the most part come from the populace and mass of people bus is a person of either wealth, high birth or influence.’