CLA219H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Make Love, Not War, Lysistrata, Lemnos
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11 comedies, most written and performed during a major war in which. In one way or another, his comedies deal with this war, and his common plot was how to make peace and how to make a better wife by not fighting these wars a satirical comment. Direct attacks for politicians old comedy of athens. New comedy in next century is that of those of soap operas and modern romantic plots, different from aristophanic plays. In 415, *proboulos, established by catastrophe, it is a group of very old persons who would make important decisions. *oligarchic regime: a rule by the few, versus the rule by the people (400 vs. 5000) First the establishment of the proboulos community, and then the 400. And then after this, they returned back to democracy, which is an important idea because all of this lead back to aristophanes plays. Athens is famous in its democracy, where all male citizens could participate, not women.
