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Lysistrata of Aristophanes
Title: Lysistrata of Aristophanes
Category: Literature / English
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Lysistrata of Aristophanes
The Lysistrata of Aristophanes
Aristophanes was a satirist who produced Lysistrata around 413 BC when the news of
Athen’s warships had been destroyed near Sicily. For twenty-one years, while Athens was
engaged in war, he relentlessly and wittliy attacked the war, the ideals of the war, the war party
and the war spirit. This risked his acceptance and his Athenian citizenship. Lysistrata is probably
the oldest comedy which has retained a place in modern theatre. …showed first 75 words of 1230 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1230 total…sympathy for the innocent sufferers of
war than anger against the warmongers. Although caustic and good-humored, he intended to
show the power lust and civil war amongst the Greeks.
Works Cited
Aristophanes’ Lysistrata. 18 September 2000. *http://www1.cc.va.us/hurst/eng251cr/*
Arkins, Brian. Classics Ireland. “Sexuality in Fifth-Century”. 15 September 2000.
*http://www.ucd.ie/classics/94/Arkins94.html/*
Hadas, Moses. Lysistrata. The Complete Plays of Aristophanes. New York, 1962. 287-328
Peleponnesian War. 16 September 2000. *http:/www.library.thinkquest.org/*
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