Aristophanes

In Lysistrata, Aristophanes inverted stereotypes; consequently, the usual roles of women were altered from traditional beliefs. Women were typically seen as house attendants rather than partaking in active roles in society, but in this comedy they were doing what women should…

he is not angry. This behavior is entirely different than what occurs in Lysistrata, as the women attempt to overexaggerate the importance of their need to go home. One of the women begins talking to Lysistrata by saying "Oh dear, oh goodness" (Aristophanes 411). While this makes it seem as if she has something important to say, the woman says she has to get home to peel her flax. When Lysistrata realizes the woman does not have anything important to say like she was expecting, she tells the…

As a child growing up, Alycia never experienced the fatherly and motherly love that the children around her age had. Her parents would always yell at her and criticize her for everything she did. She was physically and mentally abused, but despite all this, she still yearned for her parents’ love. However, her love for her parents started to disintegrate when they abandoned at the age of 8. From there on, she roamed the streets of Greece everyday and learned how to grow up independently. Despite…

situation, with improbable events, a complex plot, with events rapidly succeeding one another, pushing character and dialogue into the background. The origins of the genre are not clear, but farcical elements can be found already in the plays of Aristophanes and Plautus; The identifying features of farce are zaniness, slapstick humor, and hilarious improbability. The characters of farce are typically fantastic…

various cities to persuade them to participate in her strike to end the war. Understanding that Spartan and Athenian women both desire their husbands, she asks them if they long for their husbands, the “father of [their] children, all this time,” (Aristophanes 8). The women exclaim how the “war puts [them] to bed” alone, yearning for their men’s presence. With their husbands home, the hierarchy of power will be reestablish, which demonstrates the women’s wish to maintain their statuses as women,…

There are five playwrights involved with creating greek theatre . A lot of the greek tragedies still around today are works made by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.The comedies were made by Aristophanes, and Menander, and others who were not as important but still had an impact. The specific date of when Greek drama was created is not known absolute certainty, most people believe it began with the worship of Dionysus, the god of fertility and wine. People of the group that followed Dionysus…

Literature exists as a mirror of society when it was written, a reflection of evolving societal values. Through Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath’s Tale, and Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha, we witness a progression of historical and literary autonomy through the characters within these masterpieces. From Lysistrata’s determined female activist Lysistrata, to The Wife of Bath’s Tale manipulative and controversial housewife Alison, and Don Quixote de la…

1. In Plato’s The Symposium, Diotima asserts that the Form of Beauty contains four main particular intrinsic features. The first attribute Diotima asserts for Beauty Itself is immortality and changelessness. She claims that Beauty Itself “does not come into being or perish, nor does it grow or waste away” (211a). Beauty Itself has no beginning nor end, nor does it ever change. Immortality and changelessness are attributes not found in beautiful things. For example, human beings and…

It is not a secret that Ancient greek society was a patriarchal one. Women lived exceedingly suppressed lives by either their father or by their husband. Ancient greek women were not allowed in social gatherings in fear that their natural instinct would be to seduce men, with the exception of certain social gatherings such as a funeral. A respectable woman’s role was to stay chaste until marriage, stay at home and run the daily household, weave, and bare legitimate children. Her life was always…

Socratic irony has puzzled philosophical inquirers ever since the publication of Plato’s dialogues. Unlike the writings of Aristotle or Epicurus, the dramatic nature of Plato’s dialogues leaves some uncertainty as to whether Socrates truly means what he says. Even the most casual reader cannot help but smile while Socrates admires the knowledge of a seemingly unintelligent interlocutor. For the purposes of this essay, irony is defined as when a character says or acts knowingly in a way that is…