though Lysistrata, written by Aristophanes, takes a more comedic route than Agamemnon, written by Aeschylus, both Greek tragedies have similarities and differences that address the subject of war and how it effects the people within society. Lysistrata lines 92-181 and Agamemnon lines 1397-1475 have several themes that they have in common, but have different ways on how they approach the theme. While Agamemnon has a darker and more dramatic overlook on war and how it effects people, Lysistrata has a

social satire. One of his most important plays is Lysistrata. In the lysistrata, it is about women withholding sex from their husbands to end the Peloponnesian war. Lysistrata persuades the women to not have sex with their husbands to basically have some peace, but it only caused problems between the sexes. This play shows how much mind control women have over men. They used their social skills to get all the women included in on the plan. Lysistrata is suppose to be the leader and at the beginning

of the most interesting women from theatre history is the character Lysistrata, from Aristophanes’s Lysistrata. First performed in 411 BCE, Lysistrata is a comedy set during civil war between the Greek city-states (a reference to the ongoing Peloponnesian War) (Gainor 308). The war has been long and difficult for everyone in Greece, so Lysistrata unites the women from all the city-states in order to put an end to the war. Lysistrata and the women give their husbands a choice - they can either make

that has been discussed thoroughly throughout the late fifth- early fourth-century. Aristophanes’ objective in this play is friendship, peace, and an end of war between the cities. Through these aspects we can see Gorgias and Lysias be linked to Lysistrata. Aristophanes explicitly claims that it is philia (friendship) that should ease tensions between the Greek states and lead them to a harmony (Ar. Lys. 1157-1188); and additionally Lysias wrote that the Greeks needed to remember they were united

have perceive women to be for over centuries. In the excerpt above taken from “Lysistrata”, the author sheds light on the way men view women as socially inferior to themselves. For example, the author uses the phase “shiver me timber”, here the author uses words of surprise and annoyance in order to emphasize the way men felt about women when they deviated from the morn of society. For in the time the play “Lysistrata” was written, men only saw women as objects of their pleasure. Men believed that

women—the influential and the subservient. While Lysistrata is unquestionably the ring-leader of the political movement, there are elements of her character that are more masculine than the other females we encounter, which serves to lend this tale some degree of credibility since male (and likely female) audiences of the time would have found the plot to be completely unbelievable if the main character that affected such change was a “typical” woman. Lysistrata breaks from the traditional role of a female

College of New York’s production of Lysistrata by Aristophanes and directed by Joy Smith is a Greek comedy about a women named Lysistrata whose main goal is to end the war between the Athens and the Spartans. She intends to do this by trying to convince the women of Thebes and Sparta to not have sexual relations with their husbands until they agree to a peace treaty. The women weren’t to sure about this, but ended up agreeing. Smith’s production of Lysistrata captures the gender role and the power

Mitchell 4/8/2023 Medea by Euripides and Lysistrata by Aristophanes Medea and Lysistrata similarities and differences The Greek plays Medea, and Lysistrata shows how women are inspired to gain authority to fight sexism. In the play The Medea, the title character is at odds with her hated husband, Jason. In contrast, Aristophanes' Lysistrata focuses on the main protagonist, Lysistrata, who plans to rally the ladies against the men's stubbornness. Lysistrata by Aristophanes features a character who