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...what can you expect from the culture that brought us Hercules? In the myth Hercules was a tragic figure: born with the strength to strangle serpents in his cradle, but with far less than the normal quotient of self-control, he kills his wife Megara and their three children in an inexplicable fit of rage and is condemned to perform his superhuman feats as a way of atonement. There's a lesson here, maybe, about the disproportion between human ability--mental or muscular--and our capacity for moral reflection. But in the movie the tormented demigod becomes "Herc," an ultra...
...discussion of old comedy necessarily begins with its origin. According to Aristotle, comedy had its origin in the processions in honor of Dionysos. Slow in its growth, comedy attained a perfect form much later than did tragedy. Comedy thrived especially in the Dorian race. Megara in Greece and in Sicily became celebrated as the homes of comedy. Susarion, a Megarian, wandering to Attica with a band of players, established himself at Icaria and thus gave the first impulse to Attic comedy...