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When did Aristophanes live?
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450 - 385 BC approx., in Greece
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What kind of cultural events happened in the 5th century?
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tragedy and comedies at winter festivals of Dionysus
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What elements constituted Greek theater?
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chorus, dancers, actors wearing masks
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What were the tones of Greek plays?
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burlesque and parodic, and an implicit serious theme
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What does Aristophanic mean?
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that criticizes instutions and personalities, poetry along with obscenity, face and wit.
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What are the main characteristics?
humor, wit, quality |
Excellent fooling, sexually and scatologically explicit, coarse humor and exquisite wit combined with lyric poetry of a high quality and comic plots of starling audacity.
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Difficult words
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Andromache (ke)
Aristophanes Lysistrata Myrrhine ('ree) |
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Why is Lysistrata a twin-plot play?
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Women gain peace, and withold sex (humorous)
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Why is this play still relevant nowadays?
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411 BC
sex is universal politics the urban center establishment of peace lost/death |
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What characteristics of old comedy does it have?
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exotic and fantastic plot (to make it
more competitive in festivals) |
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What specific aspects of that time can you notice?
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No participation (women) end up taking
over as expression Old women taking over Acropolis (symbol of power) - inversion |
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Protofeminism
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Play wasn't feminist. Women only wanted to have parties and sex.
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What historical fact is shown?
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Sicily-Italy bet Athenians
"You've emptied our city of our men" |
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What does the play imply about the
Sparthans? |
As the Sparthans had won the war, the
author uses coded lgge to make fun of them. Lysistrata examines spartan woman like a horse (dehumanizing) |
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What was the reaction to the play?
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It was not received well. Its explicit/obscene lgge, it provoked and exposed hypocrasy, used chocking aspects
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What is the inversion in Lysistrata?
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Women controlling the city. Function of making a point (such as Animal Farm and Planet Ape). Inversion works as an archetype
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What male characteristics can we find in Lysistrata?
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rational, leader, not part of the sex thing, voyer side (away from sexuality), doesn't express sexual
desire, only feminine charact. is to want men to recover power. |
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How did Lysistrata treat other women?
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She treated them as sexual objects
(another male characteristic) |