Aristophanes

In the ancient world, views of women were often derogatory, yet some viewed women as intelligent and powerful. The Epic of Gilgamesh and Lysistrata both display the complex opinions towards women of the time. In The Epic of Gilgamesh, the characters Shamhat and Ishtar provide the audience with a biased view towards women, but this work also provides a more positive opinion of women through Siduri, Utnapishtim's wife, and Aruru. As paralleled in Aristophanes’s Lysistrata, Calonice and Peace…

the Olympics. The Greeks studies math, science, and philosophy. There were many writers and thinkers in Ancient Greece. Some of them were Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. These people studies philosophy. Some play writers were Aristophanes, Herodotus and Thucydides. Aristophanes wrote many comedies, which were stories which made fun of people and their customs. Herodotus was a person who examined his sources and pointed out bias. Thucydides wrote about the Peloponnesian War, and tried to be…

guitar, and violin, all played by her. Boucher describes her style as ‘genre-less,’ blurring the lines between all styles of music. While she is broadening her sound, Scream, featuring a charismatic performance from underground Taiwanese rapper Aristophanes, verifies Grimes’ weird ethos remains unscathed. Her collaboration with R&B artist Janelle Monáe on the feminist anthem, Venus Fly, soars with a thunderous…

Symposium by Plato is a story which discusses the different types of love and how each type of man present in the story views love. Men give speeches, discussing the different types of love, the love of men being of the heavens, and love of women being of the earth. However, when analyzing the pieces, it becomes clear that there is more meaning to the writing than simply the existence of an earthly and a heavenly love. Rather, Plato wishes to convey a deeper, societal message in his writing. The…

Since ancient times nation’s have built their defense upon the young men who were conscripted, but in our nation today we are trying something new, voluntary service. With the birth of an all volunteer military came an unexpected consequence; nonmilitary individuals dread the draft. The draft has been employed throughout our nations history to meet the needs of our military might, and with great effectiveness. By looking at the history, economics, and benefits of the draft we will see that it…

statement of Socrates’ crimes read, “Socrates does injustice and is meddlesome, by investigating the things under the earth and the heavenly things, and by making the weaker speech stronger, and by teaching others these same things” (Apology, 66). Aristophanes’ Clouds, a comedic play, shaped many of…

The Precedent of Mandatory Voting “Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.” In his autobiography, Abraham Lincoln said this when discussing the voter turnout among the general population (Cite1). The idea of mandatory voting is not a new one, dating back to the city of Athens in ancient Greece (Cite). Since then, the idea of forcing a nation’s citizens to vote…

of the youth proves that Meletus knows nothing about corruption, because, as Socrates says, “happy indeed would be the condition of youth if they had one corrupter only.” (Apology, 6-7). To close his argument on this topic, Socrates alluded to Aristophanes’ play The Clouds, where Socrates was portrayed in a highly unfavorable way, and suggested that if the jury were to find him guilty, they would be the ones who had been corrupted. Socrates then tackled the second accusation. He declared that he…

together but Zeus had a better idea, he turned their genitals so that they pairs could mate as a way to express their love. It is said that when we find the person we marry nowadays it is our other half that we were split from. This speech by Aristophanes was an interesting one that is a good mythological explanation of love and finding our soulmates. I do not know whether to believe that this myth or true or not, it's not my place to bash other’s beliefs, but I do believe every person in…

Satyrs were goatmen. Satyr was the kind of genre that provided comic relief between the heavy tragedies scene. Athenian comedy is divided into three periods, Old Comedy, Middle Comedy, and New Comedy. The most famous ancient comedy writer were Aristophanes and Menander. Tragedy dealt with themes of love, loss, pride, the abuse of power and fraught relationships between men and gods. Typically the main protagonist of a tragedy was that a person commits some terrible crime without realizing…