Classical Mythology Myth in Comedy

Aristophanes’s Frogs http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PklogaXiG6Y/R0ihq-KEboI/AAAAAAAADBs/zumF_7h7cLw/s1600-h/frogs.gif Link to Star Trek frog song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dEBEC1RO84

https://www. cambridge https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/costume-in-the-comedies-of-aristophanes/comic-body-as-costume/071B1B00EA646D9852800072CF5E15DF https://libellulebooks.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/aristophaness-the-birds-welcome-to-cuckoonebulopolis/ Three comic actors on a merry-go-round, one with flute. Apulian oinochoe, ca 375–350. Reported Syracuse NY. Attic red-figure kalyx krater with scene from Aristophanes’s Birds. Late V. J Paul Getty Museum, Malibu.

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http://www. independent. co http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-underground-tube-map-reimagined-as-greek-the-underworld-9144455.html The Iris Project is an educational charity introducing the languages and culture of the ancient world to UK state schools in order to enrich the curriculum. London Underground Tube map re-imagined as the Ancient Greek underworld. The Iris Project, Feb 2014.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-sapo-review-20180209-story.html Ric Salinas, left (Xanthias), Richard Montoya (Charon) and John Fleck (Dionysus) in Culture Clash’s Sapo at the Getty Villa. Photograph by Craig Schwartz. LA Times, 9 Feb 2018.

Spike Lee, Chi-Raq, 2015. Based on Aristophanes’s Lysistrata. https://vimeo.com/144523728 Spike Lee, Chi-Raq, 2015. Based on Aristophanes’s Lysistrata.

Theater of Dionysus, aerial view. Photograph by Hans Rupprecht Goette. http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/ancient-greek-theaters-seen-from-the-sky/ Theater of Dionysus, aerial view. Photograph by Hans Rupprecht Goette.

Theater of Dionysus.

View southward from the Acropolis.

http://www. independent. co http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-underground-tube-map-reimagined-as-greek-the-underworld-9144455.html The Iris Project is an educational charity introducing the languages and culture of the ancient world to UK state schools in order to enrich the curriculum. London Underground Tube map re-imagined as the Ancient Greek underworld. The Iris Project, Feb 2014.

Map Of Hades by Ncj700 http://ncj700.deviantart.com/art/Map-Of-Hades-337581791

The Plutonion at Eleusis https://www.romeartlover.it/Eleusi.html The Plutonion at Eleusis

http://www.worcesterart.org/collection/Ancient/1933.36.html The Drinking Contest of Dionysos and Heracles. Roman mosaic from Antioch, ca 100. Worcester Art Museum, 1933.36.

https://www. pinterest. com/pin/470837336032774360/visual-search/ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/470837336032774360/visual-search/?x=16&y=6&w=530&h=216 Dionysus is in the chariot Drunken Hercules Joining Dionysus in Procession. Roman sarcophagus in the National Archeological Museum, Naples, 6776. Photograph by David John.

Monty Python's Life of Brian, 1979 Monty Python's Life of Brian, 1979. Marketed in Sweden as “filmen som är så rolig att den är förbjuden i Norge” (The film so funny it was banned in Norway). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKPmGjVFbrY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoaktW-Lu38 https://genius.com/Monty-python-always-look-on-the-bright-side-of-life-lyrics

Jesus (Willem Defoe) confronts Paul (Harry Dean Stanton). https://cover.box3.net/index.php?pid=cove2&p=v&rid=131803&&por=3&mod=front+back The Last Temptation of Christ, Martin Scorsese, 1988. Based on the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, 1955. Jesus (Willem Defoe) confronts Paul (Harry Dean Stanton).

Larry Blyden as Dionysus fights off the frogs in the Yale Repertory Theater production of The Frogs staged by Burt Shevelove in the university swimming pool, 1973. The cast included Meryl Streep and Sigourney Weaver. https://me2ism.net/2014/08/06/sondheim-the-frogs-cain-park/

Theatrical poster for the 2004 Broadway production of The Frogs by Stephen Sondheim, Burt Shevelove, and Nathan Lane, based on Aristophanes, The Frogs. Production photo by Paul Kolnik of Lane (Dionysus) and Roger Bart (Xanthias).

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-sapo-review-20180209-story.html Ric Salinas, left (Xanthias), Richard Montoya (Charon) and John Fleck (Dionysus) in Culture Clash’s Sapo at the Getty Villa. Photograph by Craig Schwartz. LA Times, 9 Feb 2018.

Luigi Cherubini and the Muse of Lyric Poetry Luigi Cherubini and the Muse of Lyric Poetry. Portrait by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1842. Louvre, Paris, 1542. Wikipedia

Maria Callas in Luigi Cherubini’s Medea, Covent Garden, London, 1959 Maria Callas in Luigi Cherubini’s Medea, Covent Garden, London, 1959. Photo by John Franks. New York Review of Books, 2 Apr 2015. Title page of the full score of Cherubini’s Médée (Paris: Imbault, 1797), showing a scene from Act 3. Oxford Music Online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA99EexmUfo