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The New Athenian Comedy, satirizes the mythical members of the Athenian Society and plays fun at the premises of the Athenian Mercury. The Athenian Mercury...11 KB (1,369 words) - 18:56, 20 September 2024
tragedy and the satyr play). Athenian comedy is conventionally divided into three periods: Old Comedy, Middle Comedy, and New Comedy. Old Comedy survives...23 KB (2,138 words) - 07:52, 29 October 2024
History of Athens (redirect from Athenian Republic)of the Pnyx, where the Athenian Assembly met, lay at the western end of the city. The Eridanus (Ηριδανός) river flowed through the city. One of the most...79 KB (8,845 words) - 15:20, 9 October 2024- 1693 in literature (category Years of the 17th century in literature)Elkanah Settle – The New Athenian Comedy (published) Thomas Southerne – The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any Rather Than Fail Thomas Wright – The Female Virtuosos...8 KB (808 words) - 16:05, 31 August 2024
Lysistrata (section Old Comedy)of many jokes in Old Comedy, he receives two mentions here, firstly as a suspected mediator between the Spartans and the Athenian women and secondly as...39 KB (4,617 words) - 01:20, 23 October 2024- Elkanah Settle (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)tragedy The New Athenian Comedy (1693), a satirical comedy written about The Athenian Society The Ambitious Slave (1694), a tragedy The World in the Moon...8 KB (971 words) - 21:09, 8 May 2024
stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: In Athenian democracy, the public opinion...36 KB (4,221 words) - 06:35, 19 October 2024
Peloponnesian War (redirect from Athenian War)importance in Athenian democracy at this time was Cleon, a leader of the hawkish elements of the Athenian democracy. Led militarily by a clever new general...50 KB (6,471 words) - 22:24, 28 October 2024
Aristophanes (redirect from The Father of Comedy)caricatured the philosopher. Aristophanes' second play, The Babylonians (now lost), was denounced by Cleon as a slander against the Athenian polis. It is...69 KB (8,716 words) - 09:11, 29 October 2024
Eupolis (category 5th-century BC Athenians)(Greek: Εὔπολις; c. 446 – c. 411 BC) was an Athenian poet of the Old Comedy, who flourished during the time of the Peloponnesian War. Very little is known...14 KB (1,839 words) - 17:02, 13 January 2024- historian Anaximenes of Miletus – philosopher Anaxippus – New Comedy poet Andocides – two; Athenian politician, potter Andreas – physician Andriscus – Adramyttian...60 KB (5,765 words) - 21:52, 8 October 2024
Assemblywomen (redirect from The Assemblywomen)and scatological humor. The play aimed to criticize the Athenian government's expropriation of land and wealth at the time. The play begins with Praxagora...15 KB (1,994 words) - 12:40, 28 September 2024
Pisistratus (category Athenian tyrants)to improve the economy and spread the wealth more equally among the Athenian people. Pisistratids is the common family or clan name for the three tyrants...63 KB (7,779 words) - 18:29, 20 October 2024
example of Old Comedy. The plot of the play revolves around Pisthetaerus, an Athenian who convinces the birds to create a great city in the sky, and thus...47 KB (6,602 words) - 05:09, 29 September 2024
Thesmophoriazusae (redirect from The Poet And The Women)Agathon; and the shameless, enterprising vulgarity of an ordinary Athenian, as represented in this play by the protagonist, Mnesilochus. The work is also...21 KB (2,793 words) - 01:18, 1 November 2024
Stavros Halkias (category American comedy podcasters)in the Netflix comedy series Tires. Halkias was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, to Greek immigrant parents (a Macedonian mother and Athenian father)...15 KB (1,242 words) - 21:04, 30 October 2024- Attic calendar (redirect from Athenian calendar)The Attic calendar or Athenian calendar is the lunisolar calendar beginning in midsummer with the lunar month of Hekatombaion, in use in ancient Attica...25 KB (3,790 words) - 01:06, 4 September 2024
Menander (category 4th-century BC Athenians)the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. He wrote 108 comedies and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. His record at the City...23 KB (2,582 words) - 22:14, 2 October 2024
- jokes at the expense of the bystanders. Comedy first assumed a regular shape among the Dorians. The first attempts at it among the Athenians were made
- Aristophanes (redirect from The Birds (Aristophanes))was a Greek poet and playwright of the Old Comedy, also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy. Of his forty plays, eleven are extant
- was also limited to three actors. In comedy, Cratinus established the rule of having only three actors in a comedy, although, there could be more non-speaking