Peloponnese

Lysistrata, a play written by Aristophanes in 410 BC is a comedic battle of the sexes as the women of Athens decide to take it upon themselves to end the Peloponnesian War. Lead by the titular character Lysistrata, women from both sides of the war agree to abstain from having sexual relations with their husbands to have the men cease fighting. In the end men from both sides, in obvious and extreme sexual frustration, agree to end the war and return home with their wives. Although Lysistrata is a comedic play, it was written in a time of deep-conflict and offers an insight on how the long war affected both sexes. Women in Athens were not included in the democracy, and had no say on any political matters, thus it was a humorous and safe choice to chose them as the main characters. Lysistrata is meant to support the end of the war between Athens and Sparta by showing how the war affects both men and women, and ultimately, how easy it could be to agree to peace in Greece. Although Aristophanes take on the war in Lysistrata is humorous, it does suggest the war should end. When Lysistrata brings out the goddess Peace, the naked girl meant to distract the men into agreeing to her demands, she speaks to the men about how pointless the war has become. While she scorns the men for turning on each other, and forgetting the kindness they once shared in the past (23). The men, who are to occupied with thoughts of relieving their own needs, hastily agree how wrong they have been.…

Introduction The Athenian playwright Aristophanes created the play Lysistrata during the Peloponnesian War in 411 B.C. Aristophanes created plays that symbolized his own opinions and views on topics affecting him and other Athens. The play Lysistrata describes Aristophanes views of the Peloponnesian War and the possibility of peace through uniting the forces of the Greek women. The play contains the themes of humor and sexuality, but the straightforward expression of war in the play describes…

The Peloponnesian War by the end of the fifth century before the common era commenced with Sparta’s fear of Athens’ rising power. Sparta a primitive, economically challenged land power, led the independent states. In contrast, Athens an advanced, economically wealthy sea power, oversaw alliance states. Even though they both were state super powers, there was a noticeable difference in their culture, economic background and how they led the subordinate states of government. As well as, Sparta’s…

This paper identifies and analyzes the initial strategies of the Athenians and Spartans using the ends, ways, and means paradigm. It identifies how and why their strategies changed and explains why the Spartans were best able to adapt their strategy as the realities, risks and the length of the war changed. The initial strategy of the Athenians was to outlast the enemy. Pericles, the primary architect, revealed the Athenian strategy when delivered an insightful speech before the war. In…

A Woman’s Worth As I read Aristophanes’ Lyristrata, I wondered if he wrote this to unveil his true feelings about the Peloponnese war that was taking place. It would be easy to mask his feelings about ending the war behind a comedic satire about women and power. It would take the burden off of him as coming off too soft or not masculine enough because he wanted the ear to end. Lyristata is about the Peloponnese war and the effect it has on both the men and women of Greece. Lyristrata is the…

He brought most of the Peloponnese under Egyptian control. The Turks were also able to capture the city of Missolonghi after a long siege in April 1826. Though Ibrahim suffered a defeat at the battle of Mani, he was successful in suppressing the revolt in the Peloponnese and Athens was retaken. The Entry of the Great Powers and Destruction of Muslim Fleet The Greek uprising gained international sympathy and the three great powers of that period Russia, the United Kingdom and France intervened.…

Greece is home to the first advanced civilizations in Europe and has one of the most ex-tense histories of any country, it is considered the framework of Western society. Greece was first consolidated under Philip of Macedon in the fourth century BCE. His son Alexander the Great conquered great amounts of the ancient world, spreading Greek culture and science from the eastern Mediterranean to the Indus River. Today Greece is a democratic and developed country with a developed high-income…

Many may think that child abuse is unacceptable and inappropriate, but the Spartiate would disagree. Sparta was an ancient Greek civilization in the Peloponnese, in a peninsula southern Greece. The weaknesses of Sparta outweighed the strengths because they had no means of education, they were abusive and murderous toward children, and they enslaved natives of the land. Sparta was an abusive society and deserved to fall. To commence, the Spartiate began and fell within only three hundred years.…

southern and central Greece around 1600 BCE, flourished in the last phase of the Bronze Age. It extended its influence throughout the Peloponnese, across the Aegean on Crete, and the Cycladic islands. The Mycenaean Greeks were influenced by the Minoan civilization. It is likely that they imported Minoan culture, along with goods. The Minoan architecture, art, and religious practices were imported and later adapted to better fit the more militaristic and strict Mycenaean culture. The…

to Rick Steves’ Greece: Athens and the Peloponnese, Delphi is the place where prophetess worshipped Gaia, the mother of the gods. Moreover, “a serpent (python) guarded the ravine of the Kastalian Spring. Apollo, the god of the sun and music, arrived in the guise of a dolphin (delfini, hence Delphi) and killed the snake. The sibyl’s role was later taken on by an oracle priestess, the Pythia, and she and the place now served Apollo” {Kindle Locations 6532-6535). Ancient people believed that…