Frogs, Supporting Roles Flashcards
How does Aristophanes present Heracles
“Who the… say, what is all this?”- confused at the dress of D
“I just can’t stop laughing. I’m biting my lip, I just can’t stop myself”
“your little yellow number”- woman’s colour
“Desire?What kind of Desire?”-“For a woman?”-“Then for a boy?”
“involves a bit of hanging around”- pun
“chop, chop-via pestle and mortar”- hemlock
Show that the Corpse takes advantage of D&X
“If you can’t pay two drachmas, we have nothing to discuss”- Charon only charges 2 obols, 6 obols=2 drachmas so this is expensive
Presentation of Charon
“Anyone for Strife-end, Troubles-ease or the Plains of Forgetfulness?…Who wants to go to hell or damnation?”- like a ferry/train
“Your seat’s here fatty”-hubristic-“stop being an idiot.”
Presentation of Aeacus- judge of the underworld
“you disgusting, shameless, arrogant, brutal, totally brutal, most burtallest man”- hates Heracles
“you going to fight me, then?”- “How shall I torture him?”
“A blow for you, a blow for him”- double meaning
“A pious man. you must come again”- not as nice as it sounds as he would have to be dead
“just go inside. The master will identify you”- after all that beating
Presentation of Pandoceutria and Plathane
Plathane= common name in athens
impression of suburban world with houses
Pan” this is the bastard who came into our inn”
“weren’t expecting me to recognise you in those high-heeled boots”- actors wore these to make them visible
Presentation of the Slave
beginning of the second act- sim to Shakespeare and the fool to open act 3
Slave talk- used to open second act- find satisfaction in getting back at their management
“to think, he didn’t beat you when you answered back”-“[he’d have been sorry if he had] the sign of a true slave”
“every time I curse my master behind his back, I feel like I’m in heaven”- ironic in hell
“Orgasmic, by Zeus, every time”- vulgar and comic
“crowd kept yelling for a trial to see who was the more skillful artist”-plot device
“There’s not much good down here- or out there either.”- funny to audience- ironic
“They found there was a shortage of intelligent people”
Presentation of Pluto
sort of an deus ex machina
“you may take whoever you prefer back with you, so that your visit isn’t wasted”
“please make your decision”- impatient
“save our city with your good advice. Educate those fools- there are quite a few”
“Tell them (Cleophon and Myrmex ect) to get down here fast no lingering. And if they don’t hurry up…I’ll brand them”
