Great Authors - Literature of Ancient Greece and Jerusalem - Aristophanes and Very Old Jokes

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Thank you Dr. Sugrue for posting these lectures and I'm learning a lot from them. My high school literature teacher taught a unit on Greek drama and knew what she was doing when she told us she couldn't let us read "Lysistrata", which meant every 16 year old in that class went home and read the play. 🙂 I've loved Aristophanes's plays ever since, though I somehow never heard the term parabasis, very similar to the later theatrical device of "breaking the fourth wall". Thanks again.

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I had the same experience learning Latin when I was a kid. The priest told us that we must not read Ovid's Art of Love, with predictable results.

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Honestly, from this lecture Aristophanes' plays come off as kind of ancient Greek Family Guy.

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0:39 Aristophanes, the old comedy 2:13 Permanent Catharsis which bears repeating; _Hamlet_ , _Aristophanes_ 4:35 Taps into Truth 5:25 Comedy is about types of people Political humor “Laughing while the ship sinks” 7:42 Playwright Competition 8:47 Imperfection & Transgression of Ruling Order 9:55 Old Traditions are Best Dislike Physicists Lampoons Politicians, Intellectuals, Lawyers, Philosophers 11:34 Sophistry Subverted Age, Men

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29:40 Breaking the fourth-wall

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I was thinking the same thing. Perfunctory is an apt word for the way it was treated in my course. Amazing how much was missed!

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Brilliant as always, many thanks

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Loving your lectures -- finding it difficult to know what to watch in which order. The playlists you have set up seem to mix up the classes. Other than that, nothing to add. Thanks.

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Chronological order

[@wesfortney5294]

Really great teaching! I thought of marx as our modern Aristophanes' Socrates, a flee bitten corruptor, knave producer, klepto doctrinizer. Thank you very much

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I guess those plays can be considered the diss tracks of back then

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[@MrFedexfefo]

This is better than comedy!

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Ahhhhhh 😥 I haven't read hamlet yet

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And here we thought breaking the third wall was some new Deadpool sort of thing is as old as time itself

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5:06 If the closure to the idea doesn’t make you laugh…

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The fart is the timeless joke of our species lol

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Tell people what they want to hear and you never have to tell them the truth.

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13:30: When you can't think of Protagoras

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No Hamlet spoiler alert! Be warned.

[@joemcdermott1213]

At the time of the lectures, though not that long ago, it was probably a safe assumption that a college audience all knew Hamlet.

[@christinemartin63]

Well, now ... if Aristophanes was a contemporary of Socrates ... and Aristophanes was an astute writer of comedies ... and comedians typically tell truths under the guise of hilarity ... maybe, just maybe, Aristophanes had a pretty good handle on Socrates ... and we just don't want to be sacrilegious by believing otherwise. Possible.

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1. Aristophanes is a comedy-writer 2. Athen socient has homosexual, dirty joke 3. Socrate like Athenian virtue Grateful ❤

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Aristophanes

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Sounds contemporary

[@benquinneyiii7941]

Spoiler

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It hurts listening to this guy. Socrates was a Sophist. Plato misrepresented him and this guy plays along with Plato's fiction. Socrates espoused perfection of the individual and the pursuit of excellence. Not Plato's dialectic crap that permeates Western civilization. Amazing how backward modern academia is.

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I assume you were there yourself?

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traaaaaaash. its called controlled opposition.

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Eh?