Made Diary Entry of Aristophanes

The theater I work with is marvelous; the theater of Dionysus. I remember long time ago drama did not exist! How absurd, fortunately one man came up with an idea to add speaking actors into the performances of the choral songs and dances (which occurs on many occasions throughout Greece). I also remember when acting first started; masked actors performed outdoors in daylight. Luckily it was in front of 10,000 audiences a festival. Festivals honored Dionysus, the god of theater. However I will soon be showing my plays in the theater of Argos, one of the largest theaters. It can hold 20,000 people. Actually 10,000 because of the amount of fat people that arrive, a large amount of mass is taken up. They seem to enjoy my shows, probably think they can lose

But that was before we Athens have been crushed by the Spartans. Our liberties decreased drastically. It would be years before I can devote another whole entire play to a political issue… everyone would hate me… my works are slowing… I had given up on politics. During all this trouble period, Socrates was put to death. (I regret that I put mockery upon him.)

Besides the little annoying people here, living in Athens is great! We got so much power and intelligent people (including me of course). Democracy gives spirit of openness and a rise to new fields of thought. I, on the other hand explore new depths of those odd creatures (humans) exposing their hopes, fears and vanities of the so called great (not as great as me!) heroes of the past and the political leaders of the present.

Ah that reminds me, I need new songs for the orchestra to play! They play such harmonic music… just by the lyre! There are two types of lyres just incase you intellectual people did not know. The lyra was played by amateurs and plucked by their own hands unlike the kithara which was played by professionals (such as my orchestra) which was plucked with a plectrum.

The sophists were against Socrates and many people believ

Some topics in this essay:
, Death Life, theater argos, plays theater argos, entire play, masks plays, “the clouds”, plays theater,