The Classical Quarterly (New Series)
- The Classical Quarterly (New Series) / Volume 33 / Issue 02 / December 1983, pp 331-333
- Copyright © The Classical Association 1983
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0009838800034595 (About DOI), Published online: 11 February 2009
Research Articles
Tragedy and Trugedy
O. Taplina1
a1 Magdalen College, Oxford
The locus classicus for the didactic aspect of Greek tragedy is, of course, Aristophanes' Frogs, especially the passage at 1009–10 where Aeschylus and Euripides agree that (we) tragic poets are valued 
τι βελτоυϲ…πоιоμεν το
ϲ νθρ
πουϲ ν τα
ϲ πλεϲιν. But how seriously should we take this? It is comedy, after all.
