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Aristophanes
Characters
Comedy
Greek Drama
100
What year did Aristophanes debut?
427
100
What does the name Lysistrata mean?
Army-disbander
100
When was the first official performance of comedy?
486
100
What is the date of the first official tragic performance?
534
200
How many of his plays survive?
11
200
The name of Lysistrata's next-door neighbor
Kleonike
200
How many members were in a comic chorus?
24
200
Name two sources of evidence for Greek Drama
Literary texts/testimonia, Physical remains, visual representations
300
Most of Aristophanes plays were this type of Comedy
Old Comedy
300
This character is married to Myrrhine.
Kinesias
300
What festival did comedy debut at?
Great Dionysia
300
How many members were in a tragic chorus?
12
400
Date Lysistrata was performed.
411
400
This character represents the Spartan women.
Lampito
400
What is a structural element found in comedy and not tragedy?
Parabasis
400
Introduction date of Satyr-drama
ca 501
500
Name four plays by Aristophanes excluding Lysistrata
Archanians, Peace, Knights, Clouds, Birds, Wasps, Frogs Plutus
500
What character might have used the mechane to make an entrance?
Goddess of Peace
500
Name the playwrights of the Comic Triad
Aristophanes, Kratinos, Eupolis
500
What is the name of the satyr play that accompanied the Orestes
Proteus