Lysistrata

She’s an extraordinary woman because what part of her makes her more interesting was that she plays a revolutionary role in bringing women’s voices of Athenian politics. She takes things very seriously in Athenian politics because she thinks that women should be able to get their voices to be heard in the politics of the cities and that women should be treated fair as men were. Lysistrata’s personality were mixture of traditional and serious straightforward thinking of qualities. She also…...

Homer Homer, an extraordinary poet and historian, established a written work from oral tradition within his two epic works the Illiad and the Odyssey. His poems give historians insight into the ten-year war between the Trojans and Greeks as well as the times in which Homer lived. Within his epic poems, Homer uses themes of virtue and vice in which the gods reward virtue but punish vice. Homer established 8th-century ideas in his epic poem the Illiad about 12th-century events.…...

Lysistrata was a comedic play written in 411 BC by author Aristophanes. The Peloponnesian War took place between 431 B.C. and 404 B.C. nearly 30 years of war, between Athens and Sparta. The idea of this play is fascinating to think women can end a war simply off of the premise of there sexulity. Lysistrata isn’t just about a sex strike to end the war it battles with femininity and masculinity throughout the text. Lysistrata is more than an average…...

The significant contradiction amongst Antigone and Lysistrata is the representation of the female in the Athenian society. The development is conferred through the consciousness, physique, and prominence of a female in both plays. Examining these plays and interpreting their performances and connotation through an analytical perspective acknowledges the clear distinction of the two protagonists in the Athenian community which had an inclination of unequal gender portrayals. The significant disposition of a “suitable” Athenian woman is represented in both plays to…...

The acception of modern day Lysistrata portray in Chi-Raq Lysistrata is a ancient greek play written by Aristophanes. Truthfully I was shocked to see that there was a modernized film based off this original greek play. The 2015 American movie, Chi-Raq, directed and produced by Spike Lee was a good modern day allusion to the ancient story Lysistrata. Spike Lee said to a New York Time reporter, “It is not comedy, it is satire. Aristophanes satirized Greece over 2,000 years…...

Lysistrata takes place in the Ancient Greek city of Athens. The play takes place in 411 BCE. The most important event of the day was the long war between Athens and Sparta, otherwise known as the Peloponnesian War. The play appeared at a time when the war was going especially badly for Athens. This play provides an important part in how people were feeling at this moment in history. The main character in this play is Lysistrata. She was an extraordinary…...

We can only understand the role of women in Greek tragedies within the framework of a concrete gender ideology that existed in Athenian society. The already prevailing sharp division between the sexes was reflected in, and enforced by, an ideology of gender, which attributed different and complementary behaviors and character traits to men and women. The concepts of masculinity and femininity are polar opposites, but they define each other and cannot be understood apart from each other. In this ideology,…...

In The Trojan Women and Medea by Euripides and in Lysistrata by Aristophanes the harsh and debasing treatment of women is portrayed by the playwrights' use of the chorus's commentary. In all three plays, women are shown, in the conventional attitudes of the time, as beings made for the household and subordinate to men. In The Trojan Women, the captive women become hopeless slaves to the Achaean captors after the fall of Troy and in Medea, the husband appears as…...

When Lysistrata is explaining to Calonice her plan, Calonice doesn't know what Lysistrata is trying to suggest, asking if its "big and meaty". Lysistrata's sense of humour comes into question here as it takes her a long time to realise that Calonice is referring not to her plan but to something else. However, the fact that Lysistrata misunderstands what Calonice is referring to for a while is funny. She is funny without realising it, by being who she is. She…...

According to the text, ancient western comedies were performed at a time associated with wine making, thus linking them to the wine Gods Bacchus and Comus, from which the term comedy derives from. Old comedy tended to focus on broad, raucous, coarse, and sometimes sexual humor, which drives up images of Benny Hill, while new comedy concentrated on more common situations in everyday life. (Martin & Jacobus, 2018, p. 228) The subject matter of comedy is the comicoddball behavior and…...

In ancient world, men’s and women’s life were highly segregated. Man worked in public places while women were confined to their homes, where they managed the household and raised children with the help of slave. This does not mean that women did not have a social, public and economic life. David Cohen says that Athenian women participated in many activities such as working in fields, acting as nurse and many other activities. Women were considered week in front of men,…...

Women would be better off as cattle, than as we are — a subspecies of the human race. First — at great expense — we buy ourselves a husband — what is a dowry unless a down payment on marriage? — but then he owns us, especially our bodies! Thus two wrongs make a worse wrong. And secondly, the big question — will the man we get be all right, or a total write-off? We can't get rid of him,…...

The enlightenment was a time of great learning throughout Europe during the eighteenth century. Although the period is significant for scientific and other scholastic advancements, it is most important because it allowed for the opening of great minds--such as that of Napoleon Bonaparte. Shortly after this enlightenment made its way through Europe, revolution and civil war ripped through France between 1879 and 1899. The unrest of the time called for a strong ruler. A man/woman with an open mind and…...