AND ANSWERS
A farmer - ANS Dramatic personal typically sharing Aristophanes' moral sympathes
Democratic polis - ANS Political climate of Aristophanic comedies
Peloponnesian War - ANS The most important public issue of the time of Aristophanes
Peace with Sparta - ANS In his comedies Aristophanes consistently and urgently advocates
Archanians - ANS Peace - Dikaiopolis signs his own private peace treaty with Sparta
Clouds - ANS Education - Strepsiades sends his son to learn the sophistic tricks in order to get
rid of the creditors; instead, the boy uses the argument to justify beating his father
Frogs - ANS Literature - The dead poets argue
Plutos - ANS Social justice
Lysistrata - ANS Women conspire to deny men sex until they stop the war
Dikaiopolis - ANS Concerned citizen
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, Euripedes - ANS Wacky poet
Lysistrata - ANS Resourceful and determined woman
Socrates - ANS Abstract-minded sophist
More realistic, less political, more personal, less ritualistic - ANS As compared to
Aristophanes, Menander's comedy is
Dramatic intrigue - ANS A drastic innovation of Menander's comedy
The Arbitration - ANS Even though the young wife gives birth in five months, the child proves
to be conceived from the husband
Dyskolos - ANS The old grouch's fall made his daughter's marriage
The Rape of Locks - ANS Instead of a mistress, the admirer found a sister
Samia - ANS The good-hearted hetaera pretends to be the baby's mother
The elements of burlesque and variety of meters and musical parts - ANS What is the main
feature of distinguishing Plautus' drams from that of Menander and Terence
Confusion of twins - ANS The favorite device of a Plautine plot
Amphitryon - ANS Hercules is born through an inadvertent adultery
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