The Wasps
The Frogs
The Gods involved in Aristophanes Wasps and Frogs
Powerpoints
Athens and Athenians 2012
Theatre images and the gods 2012
Readings and Activities
Activity for Aristophanes.doc
Time Line
Time Line Activity
War Information
The Peloponnesian War
Cleon
PelWar-Timeline-summary.pdf
Aristophanic Humour
TYPES OF HUMOUR student handout
Types of Humour
stage.pdf
Political_Comedy_in_Aristophanes.pdf
Extra Readings on Humour and Aristophanes
Personal humour in Aristophanes
Old comedy
Old Comedy 2
Aristophanes and his comedies
Aristophanes and Greek Old Comedy
Aristophanes and Political and Social Satire
Alcibiades
Alcibiades, Athens and the Human Condition info
Good Man, Bad Man, Traitor: Alcibiades
Important Ideas
Wasps and Frogs comparison chart.doc
Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_theatre
I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
- I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
- I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
- From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
- I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
- I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
- About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
- With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
- I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;
- I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
- In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
- I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
- I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;
- I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,
- I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
- In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;
- I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,
- I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes!
- Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,
- And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
- Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,
- And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform:
- In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
- I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
- In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin",
- When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a Javelin,
- When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at,
- And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat",
- When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,
- When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery—
- In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy—
- You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.
- For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,
- Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;
- But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
- I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
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