Even 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 more bright view on war and how people can create truces to avoid further conflict. Even if both Greek tragedies have the same topic, they are approached by different means. In Lysistrata lines 96-98, Lysistrata says “Tell me: don’t you yearn …show more content…
In Agamemnon lines 1401-1409 Clytaemnestra is depicting why and how she killed her husband Agamemnon, “He had no way to flee or fight his destiny- our never-ending, all embracing net, I cast is wide for the royal haul, I coil him round and round in the wealth, the robes of doom, and then I strike him once, twice, and at each stroke he cries in agony – he buckles at the knees and crashes here! And when he’s down I add the third, last blow, to the Zeus who saves the dead beneath the ground I send that third blow home in homage like a prayer.” Here she goes into excruciating detail in a satisfied tone as to how she killed her husband and comparing herself to a net that has ensnared Agamemnon and that she was justifying herself by saying it was meant to happen, and was part of her destiny, however in Lysistrata lines 115-118 and in lines 136-139, Lysistrata explains what she will do and how it will affect the people. “Well then, we must do without sex all together. Why do you turn away? Where go you? Why turn so pale? Why those tears? Will you do it or not? What means this hesitation?” This is where Lysistrata explains what she will do along with a group of people, unlike in Agamemnon where Clytaemnestra is telling a group of people what she already did. In Lysistrata lines 136-139, “My goodness, yes! If we sit at home all rouged and powdered, dressed in our sheerest gowns, and neatly