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Chapter 8: Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays How old is Greek Comedy? several humorous scenes in Homer Dios Apate (The Seduction of Zeus): Iliad (Book 14) Ares and Aphrodite : Odyssey (Book 8) Chapter 8: Early Greek Comedy

  1. Chapter 8: Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays How old is Greek Comedy? • several humorous scenes in Homer – Dios Apate (“The Seduction of Zeus”): Iliad (Book 14) – Ares and Aphrodite : Odyssey (Book 8)

  2. Chapter 8: Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays Comedy in Drama • komoidia : “party-song” ( kom- + - oid- ) • komastai (“partiers”) • originally, songs abusing party-goers at revels?

  3. Chapter 8: Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays Ancient Features of Comedy • the phallos – actually mentioned very little in texts • the parabasis (“step-aside”) – remnant of the original “party-song” focused directly at particular audience members? – explains the general absence of a “fourth wall” in later classical comedy

  4. Chapter 8: Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays Dorian Farce?

  5. Chapter 8: Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays Early Comedy in Sicily? • Epicharmus of Syracuse – dates?: ca. 530-440 BCE • Epicharmus’ purported contributions – the comic agon – stereotypical comic characters, e.g. the gluttonous Heracles, the cowardly Odysseus

  6. Chapter 8: Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays Satyr Plays • Satyrs • Silenus : their father/leader – wise, philosophical, ironic

  7. Chapter 8: Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays Satyr Plays • Praxiteles’ Satyr Pouring Wine

  8. Chapter 8: Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays Satyr Plays • Pratinas the early tragic playwright – earliest known writer of satyr plays – the inventor of the satyr play?

  9. Chapter 8: Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays Aeschylus as a Writer of Satyr Plays

  10. Chapter 8: Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays Aeschylus’ Prometheus the Fire-Bringer

  11. Chapter 8: Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays Sophocles’ The Trackers

  12. Chapter 8: Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays The Pronomos Vase

  13. Chapter 8: Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays Euripides’ Cyclops • http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/ClasDram /chapters/083reading3cyclops.htm

  14. Chapter 8: Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays Early Old Comedy • began ca. 485 BCE (victory lists) • nature of early comedy is unclear – not taken seriously because comedy doesn’t seem serious • but plots are probably very loose, i.e. episodes do not necessarily follow logically from one to the next

  15. Chapter 8: Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays Early Old Comedy • new dramatic festival: the Lenaea (ca. 440 BCE) – shows growing interest in comedy – also, shows need for more opportunities to stage comedies – only one per playwright at the Dionysia • versus three tragedies by each tragedian

  16. Chapter 8: Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays Early Comic Poets • earliest names of comic playwrights: Chionides and Magnes – Aristophanes recalls the public’s mistreatment of Magnes – also Aristophanes seems to tie himself to Magnes’ style of comedy • cf. play titles: Frogs , Dionysus , Birds , Lydians

  17. Chapter 8: Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays Cratinus • older contemporary of Aristophanes • active from the 440’s – late 420’s BCE • Dionysalexandros (“Dionysus Does Paris”) – Dionysus pretends to be Paris and steals Helen – see hypothesis

  18. Chapter 8: Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays Pherecrates • long fragment from Chiron – “The Lament of Music”

  19. Chapter 8: Early Greek Comedy and Satyr Plays Eupolis • younger contemporary of Aristophanes • died during Peloponnesian War – henceforth, dramatists are exempted from military service in Athens • long papyrus fragment of The Demes • also, dialogue from The Taxiarchs

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