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TEST 4: Episodes after the Agon

TEST 4: Episodes after the Agon.

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TEST 4: Episodes after the Agon

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  1. TEST 4: Episodes after the Agon • Extract A 2004: [Reference: Aristophanes, The Wasps, the Poet and the Women, The Frogs, Penguin, 1964.ANTICLEON: All jurors to take their places in the courtroom! No admittance after the proceedings have begun. …(top of pg 70…………FIRST DOG: On being asked by me for a share, he refused. I put it to you, gentlemen, how can any one claim to be serving your interests if I, The Dog, am not given my proper share? (top of pg 71)]

  2. BDELYCLEON If there be any judge near at hand, let him enter; once the proceedings have opened, we shall admit him no more. PHILOCLEON Who is the defendant? BDELYCLEON This one. PHILOCLEON aside He does not stand a chance. BDELYCLEON Listen to the indictment. A dog of Cydathenaea doth hereby charge Labes of Aexonia with having devoured a Sicilian cheese by himself without accomplices. Penalty demanded, a collar of fig-tree wood. PHILOCLEON Nay, a dog's death, if convicted. BDELYCLEON This is Labes, the defendant. PHILOCLEON Oh! what a wretched brute! how entirely he looks the rogue! He thinks to deceive me by keeping his jaws closed. Where is the plaintiff, the dog of Cydathenaea? DOG Bow wow! bow wow! BDELYCLEON Here he is. PHILOCLEON Why, he's another Labes, a great barker and a licker of dishes. BDELYCLEON as Herald Silence! Keep your seats! To the Cydathenaean dog. And you, up on your feet and accuse him. PHILOCLEON Go on, and I will help myself and eat these lentils. DOG Gentlemen of the jury, listen to this indictment I have drawn up. He has committed the blackest of crimes, against both me and the seamen. He sought refuge in a dark corner to glutton on a big Sicilian cheese, with which he sated his hunger. PHILOCLEON Why, the crime is clear; the filthy brute this very moment belched forth a horrible odour of cheese right under my nose. DOG And he refused to share with me. And yet can anyone style himself your benefactor, when he does not cast a morsel to your poor dog?

  3. a) At what point in the play do the events in this extract take place?

  4. b) Why has the courtroom been set up at Anticleon’s house?

  5. c) Explain the political significance of the reference to Cydathenaeum (line 13).

  6. (d) The Second Dog, Labes, does not speak during the trial. Suggest a reason why.

  7. (e) Labes is acquitted at the end of this trial. Why?

  8. (f) The charge against Labes (lines 22–27) is that he ‘sicilicated a large quantity of cheese and stuffed himself with it in the dark’. Explain the historical background of this charge, with particular reference to: (i)Labes: (ii) ‘sicilicated’: (iii) ‘a large quantity of cheese’:

  9. (g) What does this extract show about Procleon’s attitude to jury service? You must make TWO points.

  10. (h) (i) Discuss TWO aspects of the First Dog’s character revealed in this extract. (ii) How does Anticleon defend the character and / or behaviour of Labes in this trial scene? You must explain in detail TWO of his claims.

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