Aristophanes

Lights, camera, action! Usually while watching a play or a movie you're more focused on the entertainment value and main plot that you don't stop to think about where it actually originated from. It all started in Ancient Athens where they would celebrate with festivals in honor of their gods. Without this background who knows how theatre would be today. Greek theatre has created a path for modern theatre to build off of. It all began it the 6th century BCE where they would preform tragedy…

The Ineffable Role of Greek Theater The Roman philosopher Seneca once said, “Life is like a play at the theater: it does not matter how long it lasts, but how well it was played.” This is true in several ways; the majority of society will put on a mask to show others instead of their true emotions. The belief that we shield ourselves from society most likely goes back to the ancient Greeks. which raises the question: why were plays an important part of Greek culture? Theater enforced morals and…

Plato’s speeches in the Symposium surprised me, because at first it seemed that he was presenting multiple viewpoints on Eros, and leaving the reader to interpret the writings as they pleased. Besides Socrates’ dialogue with Agathon, he only offers witty banter, and a story he overheard from the mysterious Diotima. The Phaedrus also speaks about love, but it returns to the traditional question/answer method of dialogue that Plato and Socrates are so fond of. The two pieces, when read separately,…

27 Nov. 2017. The article provided introduces the importance of origin within the formation of theater in Ancient Greece, where the most noted playwrights and performers, from Aeschylus to Aristophanes, were praised by their audiences. Within Ancient Greece, there were many different eras of topics and theater developments, whether those of tragedies, comedies, or modern comedic representations. The origins of tragedy in Ancient Greece…

I have selected the two works The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Bible. In both of these works we see some similarities and differences about the relationship between men and divines in a different way. In this paper I will analyze the relationship between men and divines described in these works The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Bible. I will focus on the differences and similarities which both of these works have regarding relationship between men and divine. The Epic of Gilgamesh depicts gods as…

Love, one of our many goals and desires that we want in life. Some people have already found love, some have not, some have lost it, and some have missed their chance. We fall into one of these category at some point in our life. When we fall in love, in that moment, we are head over heels for our partner. Some people say that their partner is the one and only, or the one that complete them. We have these desire of love at some point in our life, wishing that we have it. Now, if we were to say…

Throughout history, war has shaped, changed, as well as eliminated cultures and civilizations in the world. In the case of Ancient Athens, war was feared as well as respected. Soldiers who have fallen on the battlefield were given honorary ceremonial burials with a member of society conducting a speech in honor of their bravery, and servitude for the city-state. This selected member within society was chosen by the city for his intellectual gifts as well as his reputation within the society.…

Plato's The Apology is an account of the speech Socrates makes at the trial. However, by no means is Scorates making an apology. The word apology originates from the Greek “apologia” which is translates as a defense, or a speech made in defense. Scorates is not apologizing for his actions but he convinces that his moral purpose was to become wise in philosophical virtues. Socrates has three main accusations brought against him in the Apology. 1. He studies things in the heavens and below the…

In The Symposium, Diotima asserted that the Form of Beauty contained four main particular intrinsic features. I will begin by explaining the four main features of Beauty itself . I will also explain the relation between the Form of Beauty and beautiful things. The first attribute Diotima asserted for the Form of Beauty was immortality and invariableness. Diotima claimed that Beauty itself ‘does not come into being or perish, nor does it grow or waste away’ (211a). Beauty itself has no…

To understand the process of ageing as a mass phenomenon and the attempt to break away from the existing structures of the normative and stereotypes, one needs to understand the constant tension between the personal narrative and the cultural narrative, what Hannah Zeiling calls as the meta -narrative. A life course in today’s typical gen industrial world is preeminently structured. It includes the age based transitions recorded and legitimized by the state which further authenticate certain…