Greek Theatre Critics Quotes

1. ‘The punishment for refusing to worship the god consists paradoxically in the enforced practise of the cult’ (Bacchae) (4, 10)
4. ‘Oedipus is a kind of symbol of human intelligence which cannot rest until it has solved all the riddles’ (Oedipus) (1, 1, 5)
6. ‘A note of solemn warning… is meant to be heard throughout the drama’ (Oedipus) (1, 1, 4)
7. ‘The central idea of Sophoclean tragedy is through suffering a man learns to be modest before the gods’ (Oedipus) (1, 1, 5)
8. ‘In Frogs, Aristophanes both tests new parameters of Old comedy and also strengthens existing ones’ (Frogs) (6, 6)
9. ‘In general, foreign religions carried magical, profiteering and sexually promiscuous connotations, as well as a damning appeal to women and people of a low social status’ (Bacchae) (6, 6)

2. ‘Frogs… is also a document from which we can infer Athenian attitudes to tragedy' (Frogs) (7, 1, 5)
3. ‘Basically peaceful and friendly women become violent killers under the god’s influence’ (Bacchae) (4, 10)
5. ‘His works are raucous and zany. Satire - the mocking of figures in the public eye, whether politicians, philosophers or playwrights - is its constant mode’ (Frogs) (2, 4, 6)
10. ‘Sophocles conceived doomed Oedipus, the greatest sufferer of the Greek stage, as a pattern of nobility, destined to error and misery, despite his wisdom’ (Oedipus) (9, 8)

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