Drama and Dramatic Festivals in Ancient Greece

Question 1

Treatment of Women / social issues

Answer 1

;WHy do you marry us, forbid us to leave the house or even to be seen peeping outside? Do you really mean to keep such a close eye on a bad lot?’ Aristophanes Thesmophoriazusae 789

Question 2

old oligarch on theatre

Answer 2

‘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.’ 2.18 o.o.

Question 3

Comic poets on Pericles’ rise to power

Answer 3

‘the comic poets unwittingly reveal it even in their malicious gibes, calling him and his associates “new Peisistratids.’ Plutarch Pericles 16

Question 4

Pericles’ involvement with the Odeon

Answer 4

‘[The Odeon] too was built under the supervision of Pericles’ Plutarch Pericles 13

Question 5

Aristophanes on Cleon’s greed

Answer 5

‘He didn’t give me a share when I asked.’ Aristophanes Wasps

Question 6

Aristophanes on Cleon’s origins

Answer 6

‘The chief of the market, the harbour the pnyx. You will trample on the council and trim back the generals.’ Aristophanes Knights

Question 7

Aristotle on Cleon in the Pnyx

Answer 7

‘He was the first man to shout during a speech.’ Aristotle Constitution of the Athenians 28.3

Question 8

Aristophanes on the calibre of person in office

Answer 8

‘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.’ Aristophanes Knights

Question 9

aristophanes on sophists.

Answer 9

theyre a worthless bunch[…] pale faced charlatans.’ aristophanes clouds 105

Question 10

Rejection of zeus

Answer 10

‘So zeus is no more.’ Aristophanes Clouds 381

Question 11

Aphrodite on hippolytus

Answer 11

‘I strike down all those who, stuffed with pride, disparage me.’ Euripides Hippolytus 8

Question 12

Hippolytus on women

Answer 12

‘O Zeus, why did you ever set women in our sunlit world to lead men astray.’ Eurypides Hippolytus 617