All of them, obviously. The tragedy of Greek drama is that almost all of it is lost to us. The silver lining is that it's very easy to read everything there is.
me thinks aristophanes is underrated compared to sophocles, euripides and that other tragic homie
terence is a bit jarring, is kinda weird that his works were apparently popular during the middle ages
Are you the guy who's shocked that people in the Middle Ages read naughty stuff? Have you still not read Chaucer?
Anyway yeah Aristophanes is pretty cool. All bangers except *maybe* Acharnians which is fun but perhaps not quite as creative and unique as the later stuff.
The Baccae by Euripides is so fricking good. Rundown is that Dionysis is pissed that some people don't believe he's a god and called his mom a prostitute. So, he disguises himself as a priest to spread dionysian orgies that eventually lead to slaughter. At the end, he reveals himself to one of the people he tricked, goes "psh nothing personnel kid" then leaves. Highly recommended. It's only like 50 pages too.
Trachiniae was the only one that kinda stood out to me as underrated, other than that I think the traditional rankings will serve you pretty well. I loved the ending stuff in Electra but iirc the middle was a bit uncompelling.
I really do wish we had the other pieces of Suppliants though, it's such a tantalizing setup.
Anyway, to make the thread a bit more substantive, what'd you think of Medea?
I'll give my own thoughts to bump the thread: I don't find Medea particularly fascinating, there's not much development of conflict, but the speech describing the climactic incident is pretty cool with some nice imagery; and of course the main draw is the ending, about which I would point out to OP that it doesn't really have the full effect if you're not familiar with how the deus ex machina is normally used. I don't know if it could be called totally subversive but it's at least highly ambiguous.
Ajax - Sophocles
Wtf they did medea white
All of them. There's only around 35 that survived.
All of them, obviously. The tragedy of Greek drama is that almost all of it is lost to us. The silver lining is that it's very easy to read everything there is.
As this guy
said.
Assemblywomen
Lysistrata
People used to know that letting women get involved in government was a bad idea.
me thinks aristophanes is underrated compared to sophocles, euripides and that other tragic homie
terence is a bit jarring, is kinda weird that his works were apparently popular during the middle ages
Are you the guy who's shocked that people in the Middle Ages read naughty stuff? Have you still not read Chaucer?
Anyway yeah Aristophanes is pretty cool. All bangers except *maybe* Acharnians which is fun but perhaps not quite as creative and unique as the later stuff.
>aristophanes
Don't all we have are partial works from him?
No, there's at least 11 surviving works by him.
Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Trojan Woman
She was from Colchis not Troy
Hecube
The Oresteia mogs the rest. Prometheus Bound comes in a distant second, shame the other parts didn't survive.
The Baccae by Euripides is so fricking good. Rundown is that Dionysis is pissed that some people don't believe he's a god and called his mom a prostitute. So, he disguises himself as a priest to spread dionysian orgies that eventually lead to slaughter. At the end, he reveals himself to one of the people he tricked, goes "psh nothing personnel kid" then leaves. Highly recommended. It's only like 50 pages too.
This is one of my favorites too. Up there with Antigone for me.
basically everything by euripides is goated but especially The Baccae and Hippolytus (the foundational incel text)
Bacchae and Philoctetes are both great.
Trachiniae was the only one that kinda stood out to me as underrated, other than that I think the traditional rankings will serve you pretty well. I loved the ending stuff in Electra but iirc the middle was a bit uncompelling.
I really do wish we had the other pieces of Suppliants though, it's such a tantalizing setup.
Anyway, to make the thread a bit more substantive, what'd you think of Medea?
I'll give my own thoughts to bump the thread: I don't find Medea particularly fascinating, there's not much development of conflict, but the speech describing the climactic incident is pretty cool with some nice imagery; and of course the main draw is the ending, about which I would point out to OP that it doesn't really have the full effect if you're not familiar with how the deus ex machina is normally used. I don't know if it could be called totally subversive but it's at least highly ambiguous.
Greek plays? Pfft, no. Read Roman plays.
>plays
>Sallust
Wrong FRICKING image.
History of the byzantine empire is the best comedy