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Unit 2: Aristophanes

Unit Two is devoted to Aristophanes (c. 447 - c. 383 BCE), the most famous of the old comedians, whose satire was a scathing as anything produced in modern times.

Students will see how Aristophanean Old Comedy was closely connected to — if not inseparable from — its times.

	Tuesday, February 9
	Due:
	-- Podcast: Who Was Aristophanes? -- Aristophanes, Acharnians (Lenaea 425, 1st place) -- Reflections on Acharnians (by noon)

	Topics for today:
	-- Discussion: Acharnians -- Project: Overview

	Thursday, February 11
	Due:
	-- Aristophanes, Clouds (Dionysia 423, last place; rev. after 419) -- Podcast: Agon and debate in Athenian Culture -- Reflections on Clouds (by noon)

	Topics for today:
	-- Discussion: Clouds -- The Socratic method -- The agon or "contest"

	Saturday, February 13
	Due:
	-- Project: Qualifications (by 11:00 p.m.)

	Tuesday, February 16
	Due:
	-- Aristophanes, Wasps (Lenaea 422, 2nd place) -- Reflections on Wasps (by noon)

	Topics for today:
	-- SNL: The Day Beyoncé Turned Black -- Discussion of Wasps -- The parabasis or "stepping forward" -- Staging: Alpha

	Thursday, February 18
	Due:
	-- Podcast: Greek History from Pericles to the Melian Dialogue -- Podcast: The End of the Peloponnesian War

	Topics for today:
	-- Discussion: Comedy and the polis -- Project: Duties, play chosen

	Tuesday, February 23
	Due:
	-- Aristophanes, Lysistrata (Lenaea 411) -- Reflections on Lysistrata (by noon)

	Topics for today:
	-- Discussion: Lysistrata -- Staging: Beta -- Video highlights: Chi-Raq (Spike Lee, 2015)

	Thursday, February 25
	Due:
	-- Aristophanes, Frogs (Lenaea 405, first place) -- Podcast: Who Was Aeschylus? -- Podcast: Who Was Euripides? -- Reflections on Frogs (by noon)

	Topics for today:
	-- Discussion: Frogs -- Old Comedy to Middle Comedy -- Midterm examination preview