HUM 001A Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Lysistrata, Ridicule
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Looser structure: always had a parados, metaphor: door and knock on door, an argument/debate, the parabases delivered by the chorus, scenes showing the effect of the arguments, exodus. Lysistrata: sicilian disaster 413, athens hangs on in terms of money, written 1 year after the sicilian disaster, emanated with the audience who had lost family members in the wars. Lysistrata is a strong, politically active, heroic role model. Be cautious about reading feminism ahistorically into a time and place that was highly patriarchal. The women bond together, seize the treasury, and use their power to solve a problem that men could not. Aristophanes could simply have been playing women for laughs, like he did birds in another play. In the wool weaving metaphor, slave and women are not included. Women go home with their husbands at the end to live life seemingly unchanged.
