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.
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