The feast brothers
Die Schmausbrüder , in Greek Daitales , is the first comedy by the Greek poet Aristophanes . 427 BC BC it was played on the Dionysia of Kallistratos and honored with the second prize. However, it was only preserved for posterity as a fragment.
content
The content of the play is the relationship between a father and his two sons, one of whom is moral and the other immoral. When they both left their farm together and became an urban sophistare sent, the moral soon flees because of the indecency prevailing there, while the immoral stays to learn the devious trade secrets of the sophist. Aristophanes represents the contrast between the traditional upbringing, which places more value on moral behavior or speech, and the "new" upbringing, which is about oratory, subtlety, boasting and less about reasonable reasoning. The immoral son has himself Dedicated to these new values, while the father acts as a representative of the old education and at this point there is a foreseeable separation of two generations. The audience should, however, sympathize with the father and his moral offspring, who because of their righteousness become the moral heroes of the play.
Individual evidence
- ↑ "The scene of the 'Daitales' does not have to have been a rural demos outside Athens, the superior education of the father rather refers to an urban demos." Hermann Lind: News from Kydathen. Observations on the background of the “Daitales” and the “Knights” of Aristophanes In: Museum Helveticum: Swiss journal for classical antiquity (= MUSEUM HELVETICUM. Volume 42). 1985, p. 254. ( online )