Aristophanes wrote and directed ancient Greek comic plays in Athens between 427 BGC and 386 BGC. He’s the earliest of Greek comic playwrights for whom a whole play has survived. In fact, eleven of Aristophanes’s plays have survived, while ancient records attributed about forty-four plays to him. Aristophanes’s “Old Comedy” is topical, bawdy, and sophisticated. Aristophanes provides a model for comic plays that are ever relevant and ever new. Here are some modernizations of Aristophanes’s plays.
The ancient comic play Clouds by Aristophanes presents conflict between traditional lockdown-science moralists and new thinkers of the Socratic method. … Read the post vision in Clouds: Socratic method doesn’t burn
Aristophanes’ Women at the Thesmophoria shows penetration of a safe space for women in classics allowed Shakespeare to survive, but censored. … Read the post ALERT: penetration of safe space for women in classics
After studying Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen, activist Praxagora led an insurrection at the US Capitol & decreed full equality, including sexual equality. … Read the post equality activists seize US Capitol & decree full equality
In Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, the most manly of all women Lysistrata proclaimed that war should be women’s work – a step toward gender equality not taken. … Read the post Lysistrata leads men’s strike: “Not while I’m bleeding!”
Aristophanes’ Wasps is a work of white supremacy & patriarchy-tyranny. Women of the world, unite & help the Paragon-Guardian Content Tribunal suppress it! … Read the post Paragon-Guardian Content Tribunal fights against patriarchy-tyranny