The peace

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Data
Title: The peace)
Original title: Eirene
Genus: comedy
Original language: ancient greek
Author: Aristophanes
Publishing year: approx. 421 BC Chr.
Premiere: 421 BC Chr.
Place of premiere: Athens
Place and time of the action: Olympus , Ancient Greece
people
  • Trygaios, an Attic farmer
  • Two daughters of Trygaios
  • Two servants of Trygaios
  • Hermes, the god
  • Polemos, the war
  • Kydoimos, his servant as daimon of hand-to-hand combat
  • The choir, made up of Attic country people.
  • Hierocles, a fortune teller
  • A scythe smith
  • A crest tie
  • A tank smith
  • A trumpet maker
  • A helmet smith
  • A lance sharpener
  • Two boys
  • Eirene, the goddess of peace, mute person
  • Opora, the fruit goddess, mute person
  • Theoria, the goddess of festivals, mute person

Peace is a comedy written by Aristophanes . It received 421 BC. Second price at the Dionysia . Peter Hacks revised the play in 1962.

action

The Greek winemaker Trygaios flies to Olympus on a dung beetle to ask Zeus what he has in mind with the Greeks who are constantly at war. He learns from Hermes that the gods have withdrawn to higher levels of the sky because of the noise of war and that Eirene, the goddess of peace , was locked in a ravine by Polemos , the personified war. Polemos is in the process of crushing some Greek cities in a mortar; Kydoimos, his servant, helps him. As a result, there is now war all over Greece's cities. Then Trygaios, with the help of the choir, brings Eirene out of the gorge and with her Opora, the goddess of the harvest, and Theoria, the goddess of the festival celebration. Trygaios flies home with the three goddesses. There he is praised by a scythe-smith and a potter who earn money from peace. On the other hand, a helmet tinder, a lance cutter, a helmet smith, a trumpet maker and a tank smith accuse him of having deprived them of their business. The drama ends in the wedding celebration of Trygaios and Opora, and Trygaios is considered a benefactor of Greece at the end of the comedy.

literature

  • Albio C. Cassio, Commedia e partecipazione. La Pace di Aristofane. Napoli 1985
  • S. Douglas Olson (Ed.): Aristophanes Peace. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998

University publications

  • Fabian Zogg: Pleasure in reading: literary allusions in the peace of Aristophanes . Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-65972-0 (dissertation University of Zurich 2013).
  • Stylianos Chronopoulos: ridicule in drama. Dramatic Features of Personal Mockery in Aristophanes' Wasps and Peace. Verlag Antike, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-938032-67-1 (Dissertation University of Freiburg 2010, urn : nbn: de: bsz: 25-opus-93735 ).
  • Koen Vanhaegendoren: The representation of peace in the Acharnern and in the peace of Aristophanes: stylistic investigations (= Münsteraner contributions to classical philology , volume 3), Lit, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-8258-2986-3 (dissertation University Hamburg 1996).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Peter Hacks, "The Peace" after Aristophanes . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1963. = edition suhrkamp 47