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CL RobinsonASPECTS OF ARISTOPHANES’ WOMEN IN LYSISTRATAEarly Drama and Comedy rarely casts a woman in the lead role of a play. Aristophanes gets away with it only because he uses what every…Jun 8, 2023Jun 8, 2023
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Frank BreslinPolitical Advice: Part 6 AristophanesMagistratus indicat virum. Public office reveals a man’s character. Give him power and he’ll show his true colors. Will he use power wisely…Oct 15
Daniel W. Graham, PhDinThe First PhilosophersPlato 9.4.2 Socrates Among the Natural PhilosophersBefore there were sophists, there were natural philosophers. Starting with Thales around 600 BC and continuing down to Socrates’ time, a…Jul 241
CL RobinsonASPECTS OF ARISTOPHANES’ WOMEN IN LYSISTRATAEarly Drama and Comedy rarely casts a woman in the lead role of a play. Aristophanes gets away with it only because he uses what every…Jun 8, 2023
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Adam RobertsinAdam’s NotebookAristophanes in Elizabethan EnglishMore of this. One last sojourn in the Elizabethan idiom, for the most famous scene from Aristophanes’ Frogs. After all, everybody knows how…Oct 27, 20231
Daniel W. Graham, PhDinThe First Philosophers24.1 What Socrates Is NotStanding before the five hundred jurors, the king archon, the accusers, the witnesses, and a miscellaneous audience of onlookers, Socrates…Oct 12, 2023
