Greek Comedy XIII: Aristophanes’s Plutus, or What If Wealth Could See?

Posted byTriumvir ClioPosted inGreek Comedy, The Greeks

This is the last play we have from Aristophanes, bringing us to the end of Old Comedy. Unless we decide to call this Middle Comedy. It’s definitely transitional!

Discussion Prompts
  1. If you were directing this play today, when would you set it? Why?
  2. What do you think of the personifications of Wealth (Plutus) and Poverty?
  3. Where is Poverty right and where is she wrong? Why?
  4. The scene with the old woman and the young man. Discuss.
  5. Is it better for Wealth to be sighted or blind? Why?
  6. What does it mean that Plutus’s new temple replaces the Temple of Athena?

Published by Triumvir Clio

I have a BA in History and Classical Civilization from Loyola University Chicago and an MPH from Western Michigan University. I've been a geometry teacher, a religion teacher, a writing tutor. I'm a writer, a knitter, a dancer, a singer, an actor. And, yes, for fun I like to reread everything that was assigned while getting my classics degree.

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