Aristophanes, Old Comedy and Greek Tragedy

13 Pages·2016·1.23 MB·English

by  Ralph M. Rosen

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Departmental Papers (Classical Studies) Classical Studies at Penn
January 2005
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Ralph M. Rosen
University of Pennsylvania, [email protected]
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Rosen, R. M. (2005). Aristophanes, Old Comedy and Greek Tragedy. Retrieved from
https://repository.upenn.edu/classics_papers/26
Reprinted from A Companion to Tragedy, edited by Rebecca Bushnell, Blackwell Companions to Literature and
Culture, number 32 (Massachusetts: Blackwell, 2005), pages 251-268. The author has asserted his right to include
this material in ScholarlyCommons@Penn.
This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/classics_papers/26
For more information, please contact [email protected].
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In a famous scene at the end of Plato's symposium, after a high-minded philosophical discussion about
the nature of love at a festive dinner party had degenerated into a drunken free-for-all, only three of the
guests were sober enough to continue the conversation: the philosopher Socrates, the tragic poet
Agathon, and the comic poet Aristophanes.
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Reprinted from A Companion to Tragedy, edited by Rebecca Bushnell, Blackwell Companions to Literature
and Culture, number 32 (Massachusetts: Blackwell, 2005), pages 251-268. The author has asserted his
right to include this material in ScholarlyCommons@Penn.
This book chapter is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/classics_papers/26