Thread 24493917 - /lit/ [Archived: 739 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/25/2025, 1:07:25 AM No.24493917
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Assemblywomen from Aristophanes is very much relevant to current year.
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Anonymous
6/25/2025, 1:20:49 AM No.24493930
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>>24493917 (OP)
You've been replaced m8
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Anonymous
6/25/2025, 1:28:05 AM No.24493948
>>24493930
Seems like a representative balance out of the billions of gooks and pajeets in the world and musks h1b obsession
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Anonymous
6/25/2025, 1:33:43 AM No.24493956
>>24493948
Based and progressivepilled for representing the world instead of America. He should replace the few whites with Africans.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 1:35:17 AM No.24493961
>>24493930
Thanks bro, keep us updated
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 1:38:17 AM No.24493970
>>24493917 (OP)
It wasn't written to be that profound of a text, it's really just a joke play taking the piss out of women and queers, but it is frightengly accurate.
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Anonymous
6/25/2025, 1:42:56 AM No.24493981
>>24493970
I hear a lot of respected cultural critics say hes one of the best but I can only read him in the shitty english translations so I cant say
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 1:45:15 AM No.24493989
>>24493970
Obviously Marxism wasn’t invented yet but this one and also the play about wealth vs poverty where poverty argues that arts and goods need the free market to survive pretty much foresaw modern Marxist thought.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 2:00:25 AM No.24494019
>>24493970
That it's a comedy with old woman sex jokes doesn't mean it's not meant to also be profound. Aristophanes isn't just mocking radical egalitarianism, the ridiculous scenarios that follow the opening also show the consequences of demanding radical egalitarianism. You could do and say things in comedies during the period that you couldn't get away with in any other context, such as criticism of certain institutions, politicians, policies, popular attitudes, how the gods were being worshipped.

And this true of all of his plays. Our version of the Clouds is a slightly revised version from after it was originally put on, with him chastising the audience for not giving it the victory in its original performance because it was the play he considered his wisest.
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Anonymous
6/25/2025, 2:12:19 AM No.24494045
>>24494019
>the clouds
I thought this was the ecclesiazusae