CGS HU 101 Lecture Notes - Ancient Greek Comedy, Lysistrata, Ancient Greek
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The peloponnesian war was an example of the greek drive for competition between the city states winds up turning into war. Lysistrata occured a year after a disastrous event for athena. In lysistrata they are given strength by aphrodite [and athena] Athenians sent their men to sicily and were almost entirely defeated. tragic theatre, and comes out with a outlandish solution that he thought was rational. Aristophanes deals with very serious social issues [war, education, traditional vs modern, The young men are left, the old men are left [the chorus] Gets started about 50 years later, after ancient greek tragedy. To continue being women!!! difference they often had giant fake dicks falling out of their clothes. The status of women in ancient greece was less than a second class citizen. Women are creatures of the body not the mind . Women are driven by sexual desires. while the society was based on rational thinking .
