Details Title: Aristophanes Description: Key terms from The Frogs and The Assemblywomen Total Flash Cards: 15 Created: 11/17/2008 16:32:56		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Philosophy Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Bacchus/Dionysus Definition T: the Frogs C: god of drinking, wine, women, song, art, frenzied activities. Son of Zues and a human woman. S: In the Frogs, goes down to hell to bring back Euripides. Term Agon Definition T: the frogs C: competition s: Euripides and Aeschylus compete in a poetic competition for a seat at Pluto's table. Term Kleos Definition T: the Frogs C: glory Term Cerberus Definition T: the frogs C: the dog that guarded Hades, Hercules captured him and brought him out of Hades. S: when dionysus goes down to Hades the gatekeeper yells at him bc he believes he is Hercules, and that he stole his dog. Term Euripides Definition T: the frogs C: playwright that died in 405bc. great playwright. S: Dionysus wants to rescue Euripides because since he died there has been no more good theater. Term Hades Definition T: the frogs C: hell, the underworld. S: where dionysus goes to get Euripides. Term Pluto Definition T: the frogs C: the god the underworld, in charge of Hades. Term Xanthias Definition T: the frogs C: Dionysus’ slave that travels with him to hades. S: He actually represents the courage that Dionysus lusts after and never attains, i.e. the lion skin costume and Dionysus switching. The character is used to show how silly courage as a judgment is. Term Aeacus Definition T: the frogs C: Gatekeeper at Hades, keeper of Cerberus, servant of Pluto. S: threatens Dionysus bc he thinks he is hercules who stole his dog last time. Term "reason dances" Definition T: the frogs C: battle of wits, based on logos and passion. not violent. S: used when Aeschylus and Euripedes compete. Term Lysistrata Definition T: lecture CS: Aristophane's play where Athenian women take control. They go on a sex strike to make the men stop going to war. Term Blepyrus Definition T: the assemblywomen C: Praxoagoras husband. participates in the assembly. S: viewed as stupid. talks about poo. Term Praxoagoras Definition T: the assemblywomen C: means practical person in the market place. S: leads athenian women to disguise themselves as men and pass laws in the assembly. Term Egalitarian Definition T: lecture C: everyone is equal within a society. S: the type of society proposed in the assemblywomen. Term Scatology Definition T: Lecture Jokes with reference to poooop.