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    Lysistrata Gender Roles

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    World Civilization 1 Lysistrata When Aristophanes wrote Lysistrata he gave a new perspective on the role women played in Greece. He empowered women during a time when women had very little say in society. Of course strictly fictional‚ Aristophanes writes about how women could end the Peloponnesian war. After years of war‚ Lysistrata comes up with a plan to bring peace. Through her knowledge and wit she rallies the women from Greece to deploy her plan. Lysistrata stays calm in heated arguments

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    Despite how sublime men tried to act back then during the Peloponnesian War fighting for greed and ambition‚ being withdrawn from their animalistic desires instantly popped off everything they had fought in the past. Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (411 B.C.) ended the Peloponnesian War in his own comedic way with women seducing men to stop the war. The demand for animalistic desires of us‚ humans‚ is emphasized in the play becoming the only method women could use to influence the outcome of war. While

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    Medea and Lysistrata are two women who both feel that women in general are ill-fated. They individually attempt to rectify their own misfortunes by seeking their own form of justice. Lysistrata felt that men were only prolonging the war with their pigheadedness. Medea‚ however‚ feels that she has been played dishonorably by Jason‚ causing Medea to wreak vengeance upon Jason in any way she can and anyone within reach is fair game. Both women individually plot and scheme to achieve their desired results

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    Lysistrata And War Essay

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    In the play Lysistrata by the dramatist Aristophanes‚ war is created by the women of Athens therefore proving Margaret Mead essay ’"’Warfare is only an invention-not a biological necessity’"’. Lysistrata is based around women practicing abstinence until the men come home from war. War is a state of open‚ armed‚ often prolonged conflict carried on between nations‚ states‚ or parties. In Meade"’"s essay war is considered to be invented not biological. War is not a natural occurrence; it is a discovery

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    for them. It was unheard of for women to be out in the streets like this period much less at night. The women of Athens formed together to plot against the men to bring them home from the war. As the women were gathering to plan against the men‚ Lysistrata said‚ “I’m on fire right down to the bone. I’m positively ashamed to be a woman—a member of a sex which can’t even live up to male slanders! To hear our husbands talk‚ we’re sly: deceitful‚ always plotting‚ monsters of intrigue...”(728) this quote

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    Antigone‚ by Sophocles and‚ Lysistrata by Aristophanes are both pieces of art studied and fascinated within the time frame they were made and still are to this day. The tragedy‚ Antigone‚ and the comedy‚ Lysistrata‚ both encompass women who go against their customs and laws; but what sets these two so widely apart‚ is the outcome in which each women face in result of their actions. Antigone is told and begins with the assumption that readers know the background and characters within it‚ this is

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    Aristophanes’ Lysistrata is an excellent example of satirical drama in a relatively fantastical comedy. He proceeds to show the absurdity of the Peloponnesian War by staging a battle of the sexes in front of the Acropolis‚ worshipping place of Athena. Tied into all of this is the role of sex and reason and is evident in the development of some characters and the lack of development in others. Although the play is centered on Lysistrata‚ the story is truly propelled by the ideas of sex and reason

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    the theme of restraint and agency in lysistrata Aristophanes’ Lysistrata is a play full of possibilities and contradictions. It is marked by the fact that the title of the play spells out the lead character of the play‚ a female. Furthermore‚ it portrays the women of Athens as teaming up with the women of Sparta to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian War.  This was fantastical‚ of course in the Athens of 411 BC. The women didn’t have a vote. They had no say in the matters of the state

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    Sex-strikes have been used in history to prevent and end wars since the early 1600s‚ but first written about in the play Lysistrata by Aristophanes in 411 B.C. The main premise of Lysistrata has had a lasting effect politically on the way that certain events have been improved and averted. The way that the women were written by Aristophanes was advanced for the time period that the play had taken place. Having the experience of a play differs drastically than reading it to yourself‚ quietly in your

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    about the female experience in Greek society. Euripides was a Greek dramatist who wrote his play Medea‚ from the perspective of a woman who is miserable in her subordinate role in life. While Aristophanes was an Athenian comic playwright‚ who wrote Lysistrata‚ from his own perspective of the women’s revolt during the Peloponnesian War. Both authors paint an interesting picture of how women were viewed during this time‚ with many similarities between them. These stories may not be facts straight out of

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