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	Plutus (play) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Plutus (Wealth) is an Ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Aristophanes, first produced c.
		The first part of the play examines the idea that wealth is not distributed to the virtuous, or necessarily to the non-virtuous, but instead it is distributed randomly.
		Plutus, after having his eyesight restored at the Temple of Asclepius, undertakes to distribute riches to some while reducing the fortune of others, based on their perceived virtue or lack of it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plutus_(play) (383 words)

	Lysistrata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One of the humorous aspects of the play was that the main actors portraying male characters wore phalluses.
		The play focuses on the effects of the internecine bloodletting of the Peloponnesian War, but is now known as a broad anti-war statement since in effect all humans are of one blood.
		The play was adapted into a film in 1976 by Ludo Mich, in which all the actors and actresses were naked throughout.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lysistrata (667 words)

	Aristophanes Index
		The Acharnians - An introduction to the play by Aristophanes.
		The Ecclesiazusae - An introduction to the play by Aristophanes.
		Plutus - An introduction to the play by Aristophanes.
	www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/aristophanes.html (243 words)

	Random House for High School Teachers \| Catalog \| Complete Plays of Aristophanes by Aristophanes
		His plays are the only extant representatives of Greek Old Comedy, a dramatic form whose conventions made it inevitable that the author would comment on the political and social issues of fifth-century Athens.
		His earliest play, the Banqueters, won the second prize in 427 B.C. when the dramatist must have been less than eighteen years old, since, as he notes in the Clouds (423), he was too young to produce it in his own name.
		Plutus (388) was the last of the author's plays to be produced in his lifetime.
	www.randomhouse.com /highschool/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553213430&view=print (289 words)

	Aristophanes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He wrote forty plays, eleven of which survive; his plays are the only surviving complete examples of Old Attic Comedy, although extensive fragments of the work of his rough contemporaries Cratinus and Eupolis survive.
		The play placed poorly at the City Dionysia, and satirizes the new, sophistic learning en vogue among the aristocracy at the time; Socrates was the principal target and emerges as a typical Sophist.
		This is accomplished within the play when the women of the two states show off their bodies and deprive their husbands of sex until they stop fighting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aristophanes (935 words)

	§17. His later Comedies. I. Ben Jonson. Vol. 6. The Drama to 1642, Part Two. The Cambridge History of English and ...
		The other characters are more or less repetitions of those in earlier plays, though the chief gull, Fitzdottrel, who aims to become “Duke of Brownlands” through taking part in a project for draining the waste lands of the kingdom, gives rise to plenty of humour.
		The improbable plot, dependent on the disguises of Lord Frampul as an inn-keeper, his wife as a vulgar Irish beggar and their second daughter as a boy, deals, mainly, with the winning of the elder daughter by Lord Lovel, thanks to two elaborate orations on love and valour before a mock court of love.
		The play aims at taking advantage of the current interest in “platonism” fostered at court by the queen; 42 and both the platonic Lady Frampul and her suitor are treated sympathetically.
	www.bartleby.com /216/0117.html (929 words)

	Ancient Theatre Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Agamemnon - An introduction to the play by Aeschylus.
		The Oresteia - A synopsis and analysis of the trilogy of plays by Aeschylus.
		The Persians - An analysis of the play by Aeschylus.
	www.theatredatabase.com /ancient (853 words)

	Ethics of Greek Theatre by Sanderson Beck
		The earliest of his seven extant plays, The Persians, was produced by Pericles in 472 BC and did win, as it reminded the Athenians of their glorious triumph over the Persians at Salamis in 480 BC.
		In the second play and third plays which are lost, the maidens are forced to marry their Egyptian cousins, but they swear to kill their husbands on the wedding night.
		Another pessimistic play of Aeschylus is the archetypal Prometheus Bound in which the Titan god is chained to the rocks on a desolate mountain by order of Zeus, the new king of the gods, for having given fire to humanity.
	www.san.beck.org /EC20-GreekTheatre.html (20292 words)

	A Manual of Greek Literature, page 215 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		play, as just remarked, was directed against Cleon, whose power at this time was so great that no one was bold enough to make a mask to represent his features ; so that Aristophanes performed the character himself,1 with his face smeared with wine-lees.
		Clouds, B.C. This play, though perhaps its author's master-piece, met with a complete failure in the contest for prizes, owing probably to the intrigues of Alcibia-des; nor was it more successful when altered for a second representation, if indeed the alterations were ever completed, which Suvern denies.
		This play is a return to the subject of the Acharnians.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /greek-lit/0228.html (570 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 315 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Both the PLutus and the Ecclesiazusae are designed to divert the prevailing mania for Dorian manners, the latter ridiculing the political theories of Plato, which were based on Spartan institutions.
		Among the lost plays, the Nrja-ot and Tewpyoi were apparently on the subject of the much desired Peace, the former setting forth the evils which the islands and subject states, the latter those which the freemen of Attica, endured from the war.
		To say that his plays are defiled by coarseness and indecency, is only to state that they were comedies, and written by a Greek who was not superior to the universal feeling of his age.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0324.html (1034 words)

	Plutus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		However, succoured by Chremylus and conducted by him to the Temple of Æsculapius, Plutus regains the use of his eyes.
		The play was, it seems, twice put upon the stage--first in 408 B.C., and again in a revised and reinforced edition, with allusions and innuendos brought up to date, in 388 B.C., a few years before the Author's death.
		The text we possess--marred, however, by several considerable lacunœ--is now generally allowed to be that of the piece as played at the later date, when it won the prize.
	www.theatredatabase.com /ancient/aristophanes_012.html (249 words)

	Detail Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		By a convention of the era, most of Aristophanes' plays are titled according to the group character of the onstage chorus.
		Lenaea, is Aristophanes' most political play: It amounts to a vicious attack on the politician Cleon, who at that time was standing for election to Athens' board of generals.
		Plutus, the god of wealth, is blind, which explains why riches are inappropriately distributed in the world.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0076 (1038 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Plutus by Aristophanes
		As for you, Plutus, the most excellent of all the gods, come in here with me; this is the house you must fill with riches to-day, by fair means or foul.
		If Plutus recovers his sight and ceases from wandering about unseeing and at random, he will go to seek the just men and never leave them again; he will shun the perverse and ungodly; so, thanks to him, all men will become honest, rich and pious.
		Thereupon he came and seated himself at the head of Plutus' bed, took a perfectly clean rag and wiped his eyelids; Panacea covered his head and face with a purple cloth, while the god whistled, and two enormous snakes came rushing from the sanctuary.
	classics.mit.edu /Aristophanes/plutus.html (6890 words)

	§7. Development of the Presenter. XIII. Masque and Pastoral. Vol. 6. The Drama to 1642, Part Two. The Cambridge ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Just as the satyr of the first entertainment was the germ of the antimasque of Oberon so the prose of Pan and his dialogue with Mercury in the second entertainment may have prompted this scene.
		Plutus will not listen: “Your rude good-fellowship must seek some other sphere for your admitty.” Robin’s answer is a triumph of comic description.
		The plays of Aristophanes afford an example on the grandest scale of the kind of artistic product that is aimed at, and Jonson, in the scene we have criticised and in other places in his masques, is Aristophanic in his combination of robust naturalism with imaginative fancy.
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	Aristophanes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		If one compares Aristophanes' plays with other writing of the time, one finds that his themes were ones that were being discussed, and that each writer looked at them in his own way, this surely represented a range of views in society at large.
		His first surviving play, The Acharnians, was written in the sixth year of the War and, coincidentally, happens to be the world's first anti-war comedy.
		Although the play is light-hearted, it was written out of the poet's grief over the thousands of Athenians who had recently lost their lives in the terrible defeat at Syracuse.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /AncGreece/aristophanes.htm (3319 words)

	AthensNews onLine SEARCH
		PLUTUS, Aristophanes' last surviving comedy about the ills of wealth, is staged at the ancient theatre of Epidavros by the Karolos Koun Theatro Technis on August 10-11.
		Once Plutus regains his sight, he promises to be fair in his dealings of the world's wealth.
		Not lacking in humour, Filippidou referred to Harvey Keitel's confrontation with a herd of lions in a well-known TV spot to render her agony for her debut on the demanding Epidavros stage.
	www.athensnews.gr /athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12922&m=A39&aa=1&eidos=S (631 words)

	Aristophanes ( (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When Chremylus assures him that they will not harm him, the old man admits that he is Plutus, the god of wealth, and explains that the jealousy and hatren Zeus had for the good was the cause of his blindness.
		This is indeed very different from the other plays of Aristophanes that we have, despite the presence of many similar themes (the poor or otherwise lowly gaining influence and wealth through unusual means, the persuasion of a person or persons by proving that they are more important than the gods).
		The play a social commentary (all of his plays are) -- Aristophanes really raises the question why good men are not rewarded, but also addresses the issue of the corrupting power of wealth.
	www.loyno.edu /~dgiles/aristoph.htm (2098 words)

	The River Cities' Reader Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Guild’s version of Plutus is funny from start to finish, from the moment Plutus wanders onstage sporting sunglasses to the traditional Guild ending, in which the actors engage in a chase scene and then fall down in exhaustion.
		The play even makes fun of the Guild’s recent theatre season, which included parts one and two of Shakespeare’s Henry IV and the Greek tragedy The Bacchae.
		Plutus jokes about conventions of Greek theatre, such as the use of masks and the fact that all action occurs off-stage.
	www.rcreader.com /display_article_print.php3?artid=1463 (651 words)

	Plutus Enterprises (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Plutus has entered into partnerships with computer science departments at the University of California Irvine (UCI), University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), University of Southern California (USC), California Polytechnic University Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) and the University of Washington.
		Plutus Enterprises' Chief Executive Officer and Founder, D. Franklin Nyman, has shared his unique insights with students at each respective university.
		Veteran Plutus consultants work closely with the new team members to ensure that their skills and training are aligned with the needs of the clients that they will be serving.
	www.plutus.com /docs/pressrelease/university.shtml (463 words)

	Demeter, Greek Mythology Link.
		For she, after inventing the grain in the island of Sicily, was the first to gather, prepare, preserve it, and the first to instruct mankind how to sow it.
		It is told that when Demeter, being a child, was playing with Hercyna and this girl let loose a goose, the goddess, when removing the stone under which the goose was hidden, caused water to flow.
		But Philomelus, having received nothing from Plutus, and being left with his own talent alone, became the inventor of the wagon, supporting himself by cultivating the fields.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Demeter.html (2540 words)

	Plutus English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Chremylus is astonished by Plutus' fatuity, and his slave Cario wonders suspiciously whether it might be a Jew, but both realise they face the mightiest of all gods, because riches are what we sacrifice to the gods to get even more of it.
		Plutus is taken to the sanctuary of Asklepios, where all receive instructions to lay down to sleep for the night and not to react on any sounds and Cario, unable to sleep, is ahead of the priest in drinking the sacrificed soup.
		After it has been made clear to him that Plutus, now his sight is restored, refuses to have a god of trade and theft in his company, Hermes remembers he also is the god of games.
	mindphiles.com /floor/philes/plutus_english.htm (546 words)

	Yemen Times Article Print Page
		On this occasion, many plays were performed in the cultural centre in Sana’a.
		The central act of this play is the stabbing of Julius Caesar.
		Yet all throughout the play, there is the suggestion that the body if weak, the spirit is not.
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	Satan
		The idea of this ultimate agent of evil was most likely introduced by the Iranian (Persian) prophet Zoroaster as the Prince of Darkness, whose ideas for the first time introduced Demons and Angels to humanity, and would later influence Judeo-Christian beliefs[1].
		Satan plays various roles in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocrypha and the New Testament.
		In the Hebrew Bible, Satan is an angel that God uses to test man for various reasons usually dealing with his level of piety (i.e.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/satan.html (4532 words)

	Aristophanes and Old Comedy
		The play labeled "Middle Comedy" is a unique play in a number of regards.
		Plutus (Wealth) (408 and 388 B.C.E.) Plutus, the blind god of wealth, is discovered by a poor, but honest Athenian and his comic servant who take him to the precincts of Æskulapios to have his sight restored in hopes that wealth will be bestowed only on the good and the just.
		The obscenity is largely confined to a brief, but hilarious scene, antedating Blazing Saddles by two and a half millenia, in which those waiting to by ushered into the presence of the god of healing are subjected to a debilitating stench as an old woman and Chremylos' servant break wind.
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		The playing of multiple roles was made possible, and the use of males in female roles made easier, by the fact that all performers wore masks (to be described in detail later).
		Their amazement, after I finished the last summary, when they learned of the ancient Greek origins of the plays was equal to mine many years ago as I read my first greek comedy and was struck by the universality of human nature and of humor in general.
		The sacrifice to the sheep in the middle of the play is an obvious reference to its ancient origins and would be more readily understood by today’s student as an offering to God or a saint or a similar religious ceremony.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1984/2/84.02.07.x.html (5992 words)

	Ancient Greek Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		His plays are marked by a strong moral sence, demonstrating that suffering is the inevitable consequence of sin, until the wrong doing has been expiated.
		The suppliants is his earliest known play, while the Oresteia trilogy (Agamemnon, Choefori and Eumenides) is regarded as his most important work.Other plays that have survived are The seven against Thebes, Prometheus bound and The Persians.
		Of the more than 90 plays credited to Euripides, 18 survive: Alcestis, Andromache, the Bacchae, the Cyclops, Electra, Hecuba, Helen, the Heracleidae, Heracles, Hippolytus, Ion, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia in Tauris, Medea, Orestes, the Phoenissae, Rhesus and the Trojan Women.
	www.hol.gr /greece/ancwords.htm (653 words)

	SparkNotes: The Clouds: Context
		The festival was no longer an expression of revelry and ritual but a bona fide industry of its own, with strict rules governing selection of the playwright and producer as well as specific guidelines for appointing judges and tabulating votes.
		This first version of the play as it was performed in 423 BCE is no longer extant.
		Aristophanes continued to write into the fourth century BCE and his last play, Plutus, or Wealth dates from 388 BCE, the year of his death.
	www.sparknotes.com /drama/theclouds/context.html (611 words)

	Interplay of Reality and Illusion -- David Trott -- Conclusion
		These forms are very difficult to fix beyond the level of the plays in which they occur, for they must be grasped in a process of constant metamorphosis; it is impossible to affirm with certainty at what point they may be considered to have lost their distinctiveness through merging with other forms.
		Finally, the approach led to a realization that even as objective a method as ordering plays by the date of first performance is subject to modification, when internal evidence confirms external evidence that the play was written well before its date of first perforrmance.
		Lélio's acceptance of the challenge may be seen as an indication of the play's overall action, for the both he and the Countess burst the barries they had erected at the play's outset.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~trott/these_cl.htm (4347 words)

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