A219 Exploring the Classical World Essay PART ONE Look at the Illustrations Book‚ Plate 16: Athens: Parthenon. South metopeXXXI. Lapith and centaur. 447–439 BCE (1.3 x 1.3 m). In no more than 500 words: (i) briefly provide the context of this sculpture (ii) discuss the ways in which its subject matter conveyed a political message to Athenian viewers Metopes were situated on the outside of the Parthenon building they are high reliefs carved into rectangular slabs placed over the columns
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Genazzano FCJ College Year 12 Literature Text: Lysistrata Aristophanes The Play Lysistrata was produced early in 411 BC. It is the third and last of Aristophanes’ ‘peace plays’. It is a dream about peace‚ conceived at a time when Athens was going through the most desperate crisis she had known since the Persian War. All that most Athenians could see was that the war was going on as usual and there seemed to be no way out of it other than the unthinkable option of capitulation. But comedy specializes
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The Modern-day Reflection Today one may ask why it is that students study dusty old pieces of clay‚ or scrolls with fading ink. About two and a half thousand years ago authors such as Aristophanes‚ Sophocles‚ Aristotle and many others wrote works that are still read today. What these people have yet to grasp is the importance of the influence of the culture‚ the language‚ the many lessons learned and have yet to establish connections to the modern-day world expressed in Greek literature.
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attacked the famous philosopher Socrates‚ Aristophanes thought of him as a hopeless dreamer. In the play Lysistrata‚ “Aristophanes exceeded the limitations of the comedic form and approached the timeless quality of tragedies.” (Roy T. Matthews’s pg.70) In a sexually and funny way‚ Lysistrata shows the laughter of the Peloponnesian War by‚ suggesting all of the wars. The play Lysistrata starts off with an Athenian women‚ who tries to convince the other women of Athens and Sparta to refrain
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Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. Purdue U‚ 28 Nov. 2003. Web. 10 May 2006. * Film: It’s a Wonderful Life. Dir. Frank Capra. Perf. James Stewart‚ Donna Reed‚ Lionel Barrymore‚ and Thomas Mitchell. RKO‚ 1946. Film. * Performance: Lysistrata. By Aristophanes. Dir. Barbara Karger and Michael Preston. Goodwin Theater‚ Austin Arts Center‚ Hartford. 20 April 2006. Performance. * Television series: “Stew-Roids.” Prod. Seth McFarlane‚ et al. Family Guy. Fox Broadcasting Company‚ 26
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Sidney Poitier was born on February 20‚ 1927 in Miami‚ Florida. The book “ The Measure Of A Man” is a spiritual autobiography‚ written by Sidney Poitier himself. Sidney grew up in the 1900’s and in a small village in the Bahamas called “ Cat Island.” I picked this book because Sidney Poitier jvery successful man spiritually and this book explains his life and how he was successful. Sidney Poitier is Bahamian but‚ was born in Florida because his parents were on a vacation and gave birth. They stayed
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Various forms of comedy‚ satire‚ comedy of character‚ farce‚ and parody. In the history of theater‚ Comedy took place as an opposite of tragedy. The Greeks invented and employed comedy to give their audience a more positive ending after the series of tragedies played previously on the same play-day. Therefore‚ the audience left the theatre in a better mood. The comedy’s purpose was to make audience lough as they watch the main character’s‚ protagonist‚ imprudence. Just as in modern day’s comedy
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altogether. A large part of his work was concerned with the social‚ literary‚ and philosophical life of Athens‚ as well as themes that provoked by The Peloponnesian War. His plays were Babylonians‚ Acharnians‚ Knights‚ Clouds‚ Wasps‚ Peace‚ Birds‚ and Lysistrata. In the late 6th century BC‚ Greek tragedy was one of the most popular and influential forms of drama that was performed in theatres in ancient Greece. The most famous playwrights of the genre were Aeschylus‚ Sophocles‚ and Euripides.
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Athenian Women‚ More than Just Wall Flowers Introduction Ancient Athens can be best described as a patriarchy‚ where women and children were under the authority and guardianship of a male (Blundell 66). A dichotomy exists between ancient sources surrounding the life led by Athenian women. On one side there is Xenophon‚ who portrayed Athenian women to be limited to a domestic role where household duties such as cleaning‚ cooking‚ and supervising slaves were primary activities of Athenian
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Spike Lee goes histrionic in “Chi-Raq”‚ a modern adaptation of Aristophanes’ Greek play‚ ‘Lysistrata’‚ here transferred to a problematic Chicago. It seems that the film didn’t please the Chicagoans who‚ during two hours‚ had to watch the women from their city going into a sex strike that aims to stop the local gangsters from shooting one another and kill innocent people in the streets. Through the lame slogan ‘No peace‚ No pussy!’‚ a group of women‚ led by the activist Miss Helen (Angela Bassett)
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