Aristophanes Essays

Lysistrata written by Aristophanes tells the story of a revolutionary woman, who finds a way to lead the women of Greece and achieve peace between Athens and Sparta. With the comedic note of the play, Aristophanes brings out the stereotypical features of both men and women. However, his main idea is through laughter to highlight the truth and to reveal to his audience the heroic features of the women of Greece. Lysistrata is not a typical Athenian woman. To some extent she possesses male features

during this time that Aristophanes decided to write a play in order to promote the reversion to traditional values and to signify the influence provided by popular playwrights. The Frogs is one of the most notorious comedies written in Athenian history. This story illuminates values taught by popular playwrights through their stories, it entertains the audience, and it provides an opinion on democracy and philosophers though the eyes of Aristophanes. In The Frogs, Aristophanes amuses the audience

Dylan Madden Word Count: 408 Aristophanes’ Lysistrata Response 18 September 2017 Like most women I’ve read about including Antigone and Medea, Lysistrata is yet another woman that shows strength for women-kind. In Aristophanes’ play, Lysistrata is another woman who’s words and actions in the play inspire women reading the play. I feel like, however, that there are two different types of women being shown in the play: those, mainly Lysistrata, who are taking part in being subjective to the

Aristophanes was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. It said Aristophanes had written almost 44 comic plays but just 11 of them survived now.These 11 famous plays are The Acharnians ,The Knights,The Clouds,The Wasps,Peace,The Birds,Lysistrata ,Thesmophoriazusae ,The Frogs ,Ecclesiazusae,Wealth.According to the influence he made to comic plays, he was called the Father of Comedy. Aristophanes was born in 448 B.C. as a Athenian citizens and died in 380 B.C.His comic plays are “a general masquerade

play writers Euripides and Aristophanes. They both grew up with a passion, the passion was to become famous with doing what they loved someday. They were both known for writing many tragedies, which were reinvent Greek myths and assess 1 the darker side of the human nature which included plays like Medea, The Bacchae, Hippolytus, Alcestis and The Trojan Women. They successfully wrote many plays. In this article, you will learn that Euripides and Aristophanes had quite a journey to get

In Plato’s Symposium, the greatest minds of Athens come together for a dinner party. Instead of drinking and eating, they decide to engage in debate over “Love”. Several speeches are given; but Aristophanes, the comedic playwright, gives a stunning speech on the nature of love. Aristophanes engages his fellow companions with a story of how the humans of old disobeyed the Gods, so Zeus split them half and will threaten to do so again if they misbehave. According to ancient legend, human used to be

In addition, according to Aristophanes Socrates was grouchy, impatient and a bad teacher. Socrates in the clouds is a Sophist who is the general overseers of a school. In the school Socrates does not really teach his students that being unfair is bad. He teaches them that they can make an argument out of every single thing whether good or bad (he teaches them how to make the worst arguments the best ones). Aristophanes see this as being a bad teacher because he is corrupting the minds of the young

with their husbands as a way of forcing them to negotiate a peace in the war. Aristophanes tries to use sexual humor to get and hold the audience interest. He also wants them to take notice and think about what was going on during the time of the Peloponnesian War. We see the use of satire throughout this essay in an attempt to bring awareness about the topic as well as the humor being used as sarcasm. Aristophanes does suggest that women are intelligent and should be listened to. Lysistrata

Aristophanes begins the first scene of Lysistrata with a bang by giving the reader a taste of what he or she should expect throughout the rest of the play. On page 24, Lysistrata speaks to Kleonike and several words are mentioned that imply alternate sexual meanings such as “teeny” “immense” “tense” “seconding motions” “kneading it, mulling it, filing it down” and “lies.” This clever word choice presents alternate meaning that can be closely associated with sex while carrying on an otherwise normal

Known as the “Father of Comedy”, the ancient Athenian playwright Aristophanes wrote forty plays between 427 B.C. and 386 B.C. Of those forty, only eleven plays survive in their entirety. His most well-known and anthologized play is Lysistrata. First performed in 411 B.C., the comedy is a political satire meant to criticize the Peloponnesian War raging between the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta at the time. The plot of the play revolves around a sex strike that was organized by the women of

as insane. Two writers dedicated their plays to share their opinions about Socrates with an audience. Aristophane wrote a play called Clouds and another writer, Plato wrote a play called Apology. Both plays made fun of Socrates belief system and character. Aristophanes wrote how Socrates theories were ridiculous and Plato made Socrates to disagree with Athenians opinion about him. Aristophane created a comedy about how Socrates theories were absurd and how his philosophy

The department of theater and speech at The City 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

Aristophanes "Clouds" is another example of impiety as a major theme but how it is represented and dealt with differs from Euripides "Hippolytus" as it is the citizens of Athens who take action rather than the gods intervening in the lives of mortals. Strepsiades, a father and farmer who is in great debt decides to meet with Socrates in hopes that he can learn how to speak in a courtroom against his debt collectors. The man is not an eloquent speaker or very educated, making him quite foolish and

Omar Mond Prof. Peter Barrious-Lech 04/28/18 Aristophanes Lysistrata and Ecclesiazousae Aristophanes’ plays Lysistrata and Ecclesiazousae focus on the gender roles in ancient Greek. The plays provide an accurate reflection of the patriarchal society in ancient Greek societies and their impact on both genders. Whereas the plays are more famous for their comedic relief they also contribute to the debate on treatment of women in the society. The plays are quite radical in their perspective

Lines 565-585 of Lysistrata written by Aristophanes demonstrates elements of historical context, uses elaborate metaphors, and shows evidence of what life was like in ancient Greek society. In these lines, Lysistrata uses wool as a metaphor for what the women plan to do fix their society. She relates the situation the Greeks are in with the war to what women do with wool in order to make it useful for them. By doing this, it places the conversation Lysistrata is having with the probulos in a domestic

equal rights as men. Firstly, to state accurate points, most of the female characters in the play are obsessed with wine and sex (Norton; Aristophanes pg. 783). Therefore, the Athenian women, who have no political rights, seize the Acropolis, the repository of the city’s treasury, and leave the men without sex or money to carry on the war (Norton; Aristophanes pg. 783). In addition, both parties ambassadors use a naked body described as a woman, to pin point Greece’s territories. Furthermore, by

In Plato’s Symposium, Aristophanes story is very unique to why we have partners. Aristophanes story is like an old fable. It begins with three sexes all body’s had 2 heads,4 arms, 4 legs and two sets of genitals. These beings were very powerful could move very quickly in all directions and would spin using their circular bodies. Men came from the sun, women came from earth and the third gender came from the moon. The third gender “androgynous” had both sexual body parts and was both male and female

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

Equality Within the comforts of the modernized human civilization that we all experience on a daily basis, a person can easily forget how privileged they are to be existing in such a time of human equality. However, times were not always as pleasant as they currently are, as different diversities of people were not only shamed for their race, gender or ethnicity, but they were abused for it. That being said, if abusive behaviors like human trafficking and racial discrimination can still be found

Lysistrata is a Greek comedy written by Aristophanes in 411 B.C. The version of Lysistrata that I have chosen to direct was translated by Charles T. Murphy in 1957. Murphy’s interpretation of the comedy illustrates story of Lysistrata’s devotion to end the Peloponnesian War in a more contemporary approach. If I were to direct this play, I would want the audience to not only understand the plot, but also learn from the performance and leave talking about my artistic adaptations of the comedy. In order