Happy Friday! I’m wrapping up Aristophanes week with some link love devoted to this funny dramatist.
Lysistrata is a name featured on the Heritage Floor at The Dinner Party, at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum
Pablo Picasso was so inspired by Aristophanes’ Lysistrata that he made several prints related to it, on view at the Met
Artist Aubrey Beardsley, who is often inspired by literature, also created a print inspired by Aristophanes
Obviously, there’s Radiohead’s Cloud Cuckoo Land
Lisa Borders titled her book about a young female busker’s search for home Cloud Cuckoo Land
On Fernhill Farm in Somerset, there’s a festival called Cloud Cuckoo Land
Festivals may seem very post-Woodstock, but Aristophanes was part of a festival back in Ancient Athens, called Lenaia, where he actually won first prize for his play The Knights
There’s an international architecture journal called Cloud-Cuckoo-Land
In London there’s a delightful period-clothing shop called Cloud Cuckoo Land
Percy Bysshe Shelley (Gregory Corso’s favorite poet) imitated Aristophanes’ The Frogs in the comic drama Oedipus Tyrannus: Or, Swellfoot the Tyrrant
“Aristophanes is ridiculous!” shouted Oscar on an episode of The Odd Couple in which he and Felix are contestants on the game-show Password
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Stephanie Nikolopoulos 