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A burlesque dramatic form that blended tragic and comic elements, known as phlyax play or hilarotragedy, developed in the Greek colonies of Magna Graecia by the late 4th century BC. The philosopher Aristotle wrote in his Poetics (c. 335 BC) that comedy is a representation of laughable people and involves some kind of blunder or ugliness which ...
Thalia, muse of comedy, gazing upon a comic mask (detail from Muses' Sarcophagus). Old Comedy is the first period of the ancient Greek comedy, according to the canonical division by the Alexandrian grammarians. [1]
Aristophanes (/ ˌ ær ɪ ˈ s t ɒ f ə n iː z /; [3] Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης [aristopʰánɛːs]; c. 446 – c. 386 BC) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens. He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete today. [4]
Lysistrata (/ l aɪ ˈ s ɪ s t r ə t ə / or / ˌ l ɪ s ə ˈ s t r ɑː t ə /; Attic Greek: Λυσιστράτη, Lysistrátē, lit. ' army disbander ') is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC.
Aidee Sea, the creator of After Death Comics, has a knack for mixing weird, funny, and unexpected ideas into memorable comics. What started as a plan for ghost-themed stories turned into something ...
Pages in category "Comics set in ancient Greece" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Get ready to have your funny bone both tickled and confused as Sean Berthiaume, the artist behind "Deliberately Buried Comics", continues to find hilarious connections in places you would never ...
On his Instagram profile, D.C. describes himself as a “Drawer of drawings, dumb comics, misshapen heads, and occasional body horror.” Intrigued, we reached out to him with some questions to ...