Wasps

the Wasps (in Greek old Σφῆκες / Sphễkes ) is a ancient Greek Comédie of Aristophane, produced in 422 av. J. - C. with the Lénéennes of Athens, where it obtains the second price.

Racine took as a starting point the Guêpes for its comedy the Litigants (1669), by preserving work of Aristophane only the satire of manners.

Subject

Fourth part preserved of Aristophane, after Acharniens , the Riders and the Clouds , the Wasps lie within the scope of the long fight of the author against the demagog Cléon. This time, the question of peace passes in the second plan; it is the operation of the Athenian Démocratie which is aimed. Indeed, Périclès instituted an daily allowance intended to encourage the citizens to take part in the courts - Athens has a direct and collective popular justice indeed. In 425 av. J. - C., three years before the Wasps , Cléon carried this allowance to three Obole S, thus attracting the old citizens - who become frightening the sworn professional ones - and increasing his popularity. Consequently, many citizens is had a presentiment of at dawn in front of the doors of the Héliée, regulate the businesses in progress quickly, perceive to them triobole and leave free their day.

Comic idea

Philocléon (“Chéricléon” in the translation of Victor-Henri Debidour) is reached of tribunalite acute. His/her son, the Bdélycléon young person (“Vomicléon”) seeks by all the means of of curing it, but exhausts all the recourse of the medicine without reaching that point: he must be solved to lock up the old man in his house. To calm it, Bdélycléon makes him consider a dog, marked flight: it is in fact, with covered word, a lawsuit brought by Cléon against the moderate general Lachès who is put in scene.

Summary

  • Prolog: two slaves supervise the house of Philocléon to prevent which he does not escape. This one tries various stratagems, which fail.

  • Parodos and tournament: the chorus of sworn, disguised in Wasp S, comes to the rescue from Philocléon but Bdélycléon intervenes in time. A tournament between the father and the son follows, at the end which the son is declared victorious by the chorus. Philocléon is seen offering to judge a dog for vol.
  • Parabase: Aristophane reproaches the Athenians for not following it in its fight against Cléon. The chorus explains the direction of its disguise: such of the wasps, sworn attack of their pivot their victims, the defendants.
  • Episodes and triumph: after an argument, Philocléon agrees the offer of his/her son to take part in a banquet. It returns éméché from there and with a prostitute under the arm, cured its tribunalite.

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