Aristophanes

night and to tell stories instead. Aristophanes, the comic playwright gives a speech in which he talks about a myth of soulmates. People were once doubled in every way and out of punishment for rebelling were cut in half. These people then spent their lives trying to find their other halves and the gods gave them the ability to have sexual intercourse so that they could be together. This is how we have soulmates. In this speech I find it interesting how Aristophanes encourages relationships…

Aristophanes explains love in terms of soul mates. He explains that we all use to be one with someone else, we had two heads and multiple limbs, sharing everything together and completing one another. One day the gods cut us into two, causing us to wonder earth searching for our other half, Never feeling complete without our soul mate. Although Aristophanes did explain that if we are all to praise the god Love, and praise him well one day he would put us back together with our other half and we…

The first play I feel that fits best with the critique of patriarchal society, is Lysistrata. I say this because Aristophanes took a time period where men we’re most dominant in the society and mostly was the one fighting in war or, bring back home the money or items needed to survival, but Lysistrata gives you a twist with a different approach that shows women can become dominant in a society if a need is took away from the men. Even if Lysistrata was made to be a comedy it still gives out a…

In the speech of Aristophanes, it seems that it does bring up the nature of masculinity towards males and femininity towards females for them having particular needs from each other, but one thing that stays out the most, both of them have in common, which is the want and the need of having love from other people. I do not think this storytelling of this speech can be used to derive valid points about human gender. The masculinity and the femininity is not just black and white terms to be…

us through the speech of Aristophanes. Each speech before Aristophanes focused on love, ( Eros), as being a physical thing with physical attributes; good, bad, vulgar, noble, harmonious, etc.. Aristophanes, however, took a very different approach to what he believed love was. Rather…

Protagoras, and Prodicus and was also a close friend to Socrates (Lefkowitz 89). In Aristophanes’ later works, the poet provides the character of Euripides with most likely exaggerated religious views. In The Frogs, Euripides’ character is said to pray to different gods than everyone else, and in Thesmophoriazusae, a woman accuses Euripides of “persuading people that the gods do not exist.” (Lefkowitz 93) While Aristophanes and the comic poets did not say anything on the mentors’ influence on…

Aristophanes gives a believable myth to better understand his interruption on love. It is one of the strongest and it stands all the speeches in the Symposium. Aristophanes’ speech answers ones questions that can’t seem to understand their craving love or why one needs to search for their other half. When it comes to finding love we are searching for our true match. This is expressed throughout Aristophanes’ speech. Aristophanes believed that to understand love we must first realize what was…

of Socrates old accusers, Aristophanes is arguably the most dangerous. Socrates recognizes that Aristophanes is a dangerous man, as Socrates states so in the Apology, “and the most unreasonable thing of all is that it is not even possible o know and to say their names, unless a certain one happens to be comic poet.” Furthermore, it is accurate to say that Aristophanes can be considered the fundamental motive for why Socrates was put on trial.” For example, Aristophanes is the author and…

Aristotle’s “Types of States” and Aristophanes’ “The Birds” seem completely unrelated initially however when “Types of States” and “The Birds” read closely both share the common theme of government and how government can greatly influence the way society works. Aristotle and Aristophanes contributed their ideas of government through their works each explaining in their own way how government affected society; Aristotle explaining directly in “Types of States” and Aristophanes showing what he…

existed. Although Socrates was seen as a hero for some, there were many who saw Socrates as a dangerous figures. Aristophanes’ Clouds, portrays Socrates as a threat to the political community for undermining the laws that govern the community. Aristophanes’ Clouds presents a conservative yet comedic mocking of what goes against the community in attempt to protect it. According to Aristophanes, one of the ways that political communities insures their survival is by restraining from thought,…