komos    komoidia    komoidos    drama

prologue    agon    episodes    epilogue
parodos    parabasis    exodos

Aristophanes (c. 450/447/46 BCE - 386 BCE)
Banqueters 427 BCE 2nd?
Babylonians 426D
Acharnians 425L 1st
Horsemen/Cavalry (Knights) 424L 1st
Clouds 423D 3rd (418-416)
Wasps 422L 2nd

Athens

demos deme    ekklesia    boule    archon    prytanis    strategos

parrhesia

514-510 tyrants expelled
490 Darius/ Marathon
480 Xerxes/Salamis
460s - "radical" democracy, rise of Pericles
431-404 Peloponnesian War
429 Pericles dies
427-422 Kleon(Cleon)

Socrates    Chaerephon    Sophists

Dionysos    satyr    maenad
dithyramb

Greater Dionysia   486  Lenaia 440
proagon    choregos

theatron    orchestra    eisodos(parodos)    skene

Wasps  422 2nd Lenaia

Kleon's Career, son of a tanner  pro-war      populist/demagogue flamboyant speaker
 427 proposed decree to execute rebel Mytileneans
 426 sued Aristophanes for treason, Babylonians
 425 achieved surrender of Spartans at Pylos
  approved tribute increase on allies
  raised jurors' pay from 2-3 obols
424/3 seems to have sued Aristophanes again over Knights
 423 proposal to execute all Scioneans
 422 killed in battle

 Kyon of Kydathenaion = Cleonhound                Labes of Aixone     Laches 427-425 Sicily
Procleon    Bdelycleon (Contracleon)    Xanthias     Sosias
Carcinus

Birds - 2nd placeD 414 BCE
Peithetairos = "Persuader" Makemedo    Euelpides = Goodhope
Hoopoe = Tereus, Thracian king with Nightingale
Meton    Cinesias
Gods - Iris, Prometheus, Poseidon, Heracles, Triballos = Jerkoffalot
415-413    first successful then utterly disastrous Sicilian Expedition

Lysistrata - Lenaia? 411
Lysimache    proboulos = magistrate (Sophocles)
400    5000

didaskolos    chorodidaskolos    choreutes
hypokrites    technites    protagonistes, deuter-, trit-    skenikos

mechane     ekkyklema

30 Tyrants    Thrasybulus        Agyrrhius      oligarch(y)

Praxagora