CLASS 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sicilian Expedition, Lysistrata, Oligarchy
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Midterm: november 8 but open until nov 12. It is a later play, staged 411 bce, during the last stage of the. Plot: women of athens, sparta, and other greek cities decide to stop the. Peloponnesian war by withdrawing sex from their husbands. Women occupy the acropolis and the state"s treasury, refusing to let the men use it until their capitulate. Followed wars with the persia earlier in the 5th century. The main issue was the rivalry between democratic athens and oligarchic. The athenians respond to a request for help issued by the city of segesta in sicily at war with the city of selinunt. This is an opportunity to gain influence in sicily; they decide to attack (or. Aristophanes fantasizes about an honorable way of bringing war to an end iclicker: the lysistrata takes place. During the last part of the peloponnesian war.
