Paper 1 Aristophanes’s Lysistrata shows the different types of women in society and the inequality of the sexes during Peloponnesian War. During that time, women had no political rights. There was a war going on between the Athenian and the Spartans, and the women, specifically, Lysistrata, wanted to stop it by seizing Acropolis and refusing sex from all the men in the city. Women during the Peloponnesian war were not expected to end the war, however, in the play, Lysistrata, women had the intelligence
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This theme of women transgressing against the norm is shown in Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Medea, and Aristophanes’ Lysistrata. However, this is not to suggest that women has achieved a high status in Greek society, but rather, it shows that women, unlike the passive roles that they were expected to have in society, became educated enough (which was shown in Antigone where
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Our representation of the play Lysistrata is at a disco club set in the 1970’s. Our interpretation of it will include arguments and competitions. The competition will be dancing. Similar to a competition in the early greek festivals. However, our dancing will reflect more so of the 1970’s time period. To make this all possible we need the set, costumes and sound in order to represent and enhance our version of the play. The stage set represents the scenery and other properties used to identify the
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We all laugh, we laugh about a great number of things, but why? There are multitude of reasons why we find something funny and basic rules and protocols for creating a hilarious piece. Lysistrata, an ancient comedy piece that was originally preformed in 411 BCE uses rich and numerous of different methods to create an overall humorous play. The overall plot is that Athens and Sparta are at war and the wives of both city-states want the conflict to end so they go on a sex strike in order to persuade
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They play Lysistrata is a women’s activist story that happens in a period before there was a term and definition known as women’s liberation. Women were tired of their men being excluded for a considerable length of time to battle for their nation, the ladies bound together and took care of issues themselves. The initial segment of the arrangement was to get control of the Acropolis qualifying the ladies for control of the accounts of the Polis. The second piece of the arrangement was to use techniques
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HIST 115-24 Lysistrata Paper In Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, the women unite to end the war between Athens and Sparta. This unity is desired to achieve peace where the men could not. The central figure who makes the argument for peace is the character Lysistrata who at first glance may appear feminist to the modern reader. Though once Lysistrata is read more carefully, the female characters of Lysistrata actually present a negative portrayal of women, with their manipulations and use of sex appeal
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Social issues in Aristophanes comedy Introduction Comedy was derived from a Greek word komoidia, which means song. Aristotle argued that comedy was ultimately developed from song. With the introduction of comedy people did not grasp it quickly simply because no one took it seriously. Aristophanes is considered the best playwright of comedies in the classical literary period because of his comedies that are extant. Aristophanes, Eupolis, and Cratinus were among the best playwrights who ancient
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sexuality to influence the decisions of men. This also proves to be true in most present-day cultures around the world. Though a large majority of the countries of the world are led by men, women have a way of influencing men in their decisions. In both Lysistrata and The Thousand and One Nights, women have great influences on men in power to positively affect the community or kingdom in which the story takes place. In both literary works, this influence from the women brought peace to a society previously
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ENG 209-001 Greek Theater Essay Medea by Euripedes and Lysistrata by Aristophanes are two different Greek plays in which the main characters are both strong females with goals to accomplish. Medea is a tragedy written about a woman driven by revenge. Lysistrata is a comedy about a woman who wants to take a stand. Greek tragedies and comedies usually did not have too much in common, besides the general moral background instilled in the people of that time period. Although tragedies always ended
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Pericles's Athens: With both of the Greek plays Lysistrata and Medea, we see that a women is treated as far less than equal to a man in every way, and are always looked upon as their husband's property. In both plays, the husbands see their wives as liabilities, and they also see their wives as only useful to doing the chores around the home, and of course, to bearing them children. When Medea is betrayed and cheated on by her now ex-husband and father of their children, Jason, she says, “But
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