Frogs, Chorus (Frogs+Initiates) Flashcards
Show that the Chorus of Frogs is comedic
“Bre-ke-ke-kex, co-ax,co-ax”- effectively ‘ribbit’ sound or sound of frogs having sex
“froggle-bubble-splash-dash”- Aristophanes liked to make up words, it’s supposed to represent bubbles rising in water
Show that the Chorus of Frogs are hubristic
“mind your own business. What did you expect?”
“Oh no, we’ll sing all the more”
“This will cause us horrible pain”- if he sings
“You’re not going to beat use-no way!”
Who are the Chorus of Initiates
allusion to the bacchants and the Eleusinian mysteries
Show that the CofI is used to show Aristophanes’ political message
“the magistrate who, when our city’s storm-tossed, Lines his pockets”
“taking a U-turn/ towards an easier position”- politicians changing their mind
“All citizens should be treated as equals, free from fear”
“I say their slip should be overlooked and, once they’ve explained themselves, the slate wiped clean”
“No man in our city should be without rights”
“May our great troubles, our destructive use of arms End completely. Let Cleophon, and anyone else who wants to, Fight in their own native land”
Show that A used the CofI to reference comic/ athenian life
“the politician who takes a bite out of a comic playwright’s Earnings when mocked in our traditional Worship of Dionysus”
“I’ve lots of good jokes to tell and much to say in earnest too”
“It is right for a holy chorus to encourage and instruct the city in whats good for it”
“at a later date we’ll not seem quite so smart”
“For the audience, at any rate, is smart”
Show that CofI are comic
“I’d spotted- a pretty little playmate- and, through a rip in her gown, a little booby peeped out”
“Cleisthenes’ arsehole is plucking out its hairs ad tearing its cheeks! He was bending over”- Cleisthenes was a sexually desperate man
“they say that Callias… went off to fight at sea, hunting pussy in fitted lionskin pants”- wealthy Athenian
“It’s not easy being clever”
“I’d have suspected someone was talking bollocks”
