CLA219H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mattress, Sex Strike, Lysistrata
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There were three other famous comical authors, sophocles, euripedes, and alkibiades. He is a prominent comical writer in antiquity. Aristophanes lived from the 2nd half of the 5th century to the beginning of the 4th century. Most of his plays were written during the pelopolysian war in 432-404 bc between sparta and. Most of this comedies deal with hose to get peace from the wars, in a funny way. Atomiun attacks are directly to specific people. Old comedy centers around a comic idea and halfway in to the play, we see the outcome of the. This style was the old comedy of athens. comic idea. New comedy was written in the next century, similar to the comedy seen in soap operas. Lystertrata imagination of a temporary gynaecocracy (rule of women) This decision making system changed a bit during the pelopolysian war. Athens was famous for its democracy of all men, excluding slaves and women of course.
