Aristophanes

particular are created to present a theme that the playwright wants to portray through the use of comedy and tragedy. Aristophanes one of the most effective playwright of Ancient Greece uses the plays he writes to portray his political views about the war and challenges the views of war among his audience. One in which, “Lysistrata” he delineates his views on the Peloponnesian War. Aristophanes uses his style of feminism and the nature of sex to portray how he viewed the well-being of the war…

to force them to negotiate policy and peace. Lysistrata was conceived and written during the middle of Aristophanes career as he was beginning to add new elements to his take on Old Comedy. For example Lysistrata has a double chorus, which is reflective of the plots divide – men versus women – that later unites to exemplify reconciliation between the two opposing genders. The plays Aristophanes wrote contained somewhat formal arguments (agon) that are simply for rhetorical effect. Lysistrata’s…

"Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever" (Aristophanes). This is a great quote. It is basically reinforcing the point that stupid can’t be fixed. The quote reinforces the point about stupidity by giving examples of things that can be changed. The examples given are youthfulness which can be fixed with age, immaturity is fixed by age as well, ignorance can be fixed by teaching, and drunkenness eventually ends when you…

students Plato, in The Republic and the plays of Aristophanes, in The Clouds. Each had their own portrayals of Socrates’ characteristics and beliefs. If you have read his texts then you can tell that in, The Clouds, Aristophanes wrote with a comical tone. In Clouds, he portrays Socrates roughly and sarcastically. This Socrates is a sophisticated atheist that is angered very quickly and lacks patience. To show readers the lack of patience, Aristophanes uses Strepsiades, a student of Socrates.…

Throughout the play Lysistrata, Aristophanes constantly makes reference to gender roles that exist during 411 BC in ancient Greece. He demonstrates that at this time, men are clearly looked at as superior to women in all aspects of life and should generally be uncontrollable. However, he gives Lysistrata, and to some extent the other females, the opportunity to use sexuality as a source of power in order to reach their goals since women do not usually have any voice in society. The title…

In addition, Aristophanes’ theory adequately explains the concepts of marriage and sexual intercourse, and why so many people partake in them; they cannot ever be truly welded together with their “other half,” but they can can still form bonds together through marriage and sexual relations. As a result, Aristophanes’ theory of love is superior to Plato’s for a vast majority humans, as Aristophanes adequately explains why a vast majority of people partake…

and technology between “The Acharnians” and Stephen Colbert’s “The Word: Armistice,” both works utilize satire and have a very similar way of presenting it to their respective audiences. “The Acharnians” is a play written by Athenian playwright Aristophanes, and it is set during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. In the play, Dicaeopolis is an Athenian farmer that is one of the very few people…

The Comedic Nature of Lysistrata On the year 411 BC, Aristophanes wrote the comedic play Lysistrata, the first anti-war play in the world. Comedy takes various forms, and the purpose of this essay is to analyze the comedic elements used in Lysistrata to determine whether it is a farce or a satire. Why is this important? Michael Moses, the president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics said: “The key to adjusting the relative strengths and weakness of a particular work was for the…

Euelipides seek asylum from the monstrous nature of the corrupt and greedy politicians that plague the human world by joining their perceived utopia with the birds, but find that the hunger for power is universal throughout civilization. Where Aristophanes tells about the troubling nature of humans through the characterization of birds, Plato addresses his own personal desire for man to strive for a truth greater than that offered by society in his Allegory of the Cave. Aristophanes's humor and…

surrounding love: what it is, who it effects, and what it means to be achieved. The general understanding is that there are multiple forms of love, and whichever is engaged in will help dictate the status of the one engaging. The speeches of Aristophanes and Diotima present differing definitions of the purpose of love with varying levels of complexity. Each outlines a different path one must take in order to achieve love’s purpose, and the path one chooses dictates what change a person will…