Aristophanes Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

1. What is an aesthetic experience A feeling of pleasure that justifies itself 2. Which topic is studied by the humanities The cultures and beliefs thatmake up the experience of being human 3. Which branch of philosophy deals with the nature and scope of knowledge Epistemology 4. What is a clear example of the creation of aesthetic beauty in a humanities discipline a welder fabricates components for construction of a new high-rise building 5. Match each type of love with its definition.:...

Aristophanes' Frogs Summary, Quotes, and Modern/Secondary Scholarship

18 pages summary, has the history from Solon/Cleisthenes/Ephialtes/Pericles etc and also has the set sources for OCR: Aristophanes, Plato, Pseudo-Xenophon, Aeschylus, Euripides and Thucydides (analysis, quotes and summaries)

This is a line by line breakdown of Aristophanes' Frogs which are at an A* standard for the OCR A-level is classical civerlisation

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Aristophanes' the 'Wasps'

A* notes on Frogs with a summary of plot and reception, all characters and themes including: - Nature of Theatre - Use of Comedy - Value of Tragedy - Politics - Old vs. New - Religion and the gods - Slaves and Masters - Women and Femininity - Identity - Life and Death - Punishment and Vengeance

THEA Chapter 2 Latest Update with Verified Solutions Antagonist - Bad guy - Opposer of the action Aristotle defines Tragedy - Wrote "Poetics" - Ancient Greek Time Aristotle Rules of Tragedy - Protagonist - Antagonist - Protagonist must have a reversal of fortune - Catharsis - Denouement Aristotles 6 components of a play 1. Plot 2. Characters 3. Theme 4. Diction 5. Music 6. Spectacle 7. Convention Catharsis - audience purge of emotions - Glad it didn't happ...

The Classical Period 500 BCE- 500 CE - Themes: balance, truth/reason, democracy/republic, polytheism, humanism Great thinkers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle—engaged in pursuit of truth through logic and reason. Poetry: The Odyssey-Homer A Lament for Adonis-Sappho Theater: Oedipus Rex- Sophocles Aristophanes- Lysistrata Music: "First Delphic Hymn to Apollo" is the earliest surviving fragment of notated music from anywhere in the Western world. The Middle Ages - religion, deferenc...

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