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Aristophanes

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Lysistrata Summary

Lysistrata is often produced in contemporary theatre. Modern audiences enjoy the sexuality and humor in Aristophanes' work, and they enjoy what appears as modern feminism and the depiction of strong women. Comedies were very popular presentations during the Greek festivals, and there is no reason to think that Lysistrata was not immensely popular. At the time of the play's initial production, Athens and Sparta had been at war for twenty years, and this...

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Aristophanes Biographies (3)

Aristophanes

1,468 words, approx. 5 pages

Aristophanes (448-after 385 BC) was the greatest of the writers of the Old Comedy, which flourished in Athens in the 5th century BC, and the only one with any complete plays surviving. He wrote at lea... Read more

Aristophanes

3,786 words, approx. 13 pages

Aristophanes of Athens was judged in antiquity to be the foremost poet of Old Attic Comedy, a theatrical genre of which he was one of the last practitioners and of which his eleven surviving plays are... Read more

Aristophanes

4,336 words, approx. 15 pages

Robert Neil, Aristophanes' Knights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1901); Maurice Platnauer, Aristophanes' Peace (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964); Kenneth Dover, Aristophanes' Clouds... Read more

Essays & Analysis (6)

Characterization of "Lysistrata"

799 words, approx. 3 pages

Lysistrata, first produced in 411 B.C. is a play that represents the frustrations that Athenian women faced due to the Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata, an Athenian woman is the play's heroine; her name... Read more

Lysistrata by Aristophanes

752 words, approx. 3 pages

The play Lysistrata by Aristophanes creates a very important dilemma to the men of Ancient Greece. The Peloponnesian War had been raging through Greece for over a decade when Aristophanes wrote this ... Read more

Comparing the Characters of Lysitrata, Penelope, and Medea

1,005 words, approx. 4 pages

The purpose of the paper is to compare and contrast the characters of Penelope in the epic, The Odyssey, Lysistrata in the comedy, Lysistrata, and Medea in the tragedy, Medea. The writer will first gi... Read more

Is "the Lysistrata" a Serious Play?

1,043 words, approx. 4 pages

"The Lysistrata" by Aristophanes is a play set during 411 BC when Athens and Sparta were at war against each other. The play is about Athenian and Spartan women trying to stop the war by refusing to h... Read more

Lysistrata, a Summary

763 words, approx. 3 pages

Lysistrata begins with the main character, Lysistrata, planning a meeting between all of the women of Greece to formulate a plan to end the Peloponnesian War. As she is waiting, she curses the weaknes... Read more

Literary Love

1,481 words, approx. 5 pages

Love - possibly the most powerful four-letter word known to man. A feeling and emotion so strong that it makes it nearly impossible to put its meaning into words. However, it is also one of the most... Read more

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