In this episode, we discuss the Lenaia, the intricacies of Athenian Old Comedy, and what is known about the lives and works of the earliest comedic poets, including Aristophanes, whose eleven surviving works effectively define the genre today
Primary Sources:
Text/Aristophanes' The Acharnians
Text/Aristophanes' The Knights
Text/Aristophanes' The Clouds
Text/Aristophanes' The Wasps
Text/Aristophanes' Peace
Text/Aristophanes' The Birds
Text/Aristophanes' The Thesmophoriazusae
Text/Aristophanes' Lysistrata
Text/Aristophanes' The Frogs
Text/Aristophanes' The Ecclesiazusae
Text/Aristophanes' Wealth
Supplementary Resources (Videos, Photos, Other Podcasts)
Recommended Podcast Episodes:
***Ancient Greece Declassified Ep 12 The Comedy of Democracy
***Literature and History Ep 35 Aristophanes' The Clouds
***Literature and History Ep 36 Aristophanes' Lysistrata
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