Question

a) Describe three ways in which Aristophanes’ Lysistrata reflects the society, culture, values, and/or government of fifth-century Athens.

??b) Describe three serious arguments for peace which are made by various characters in the play Lysistrata.

Answer 1

1. In looking at the social ramifications of the depiction of ladies in Lysistrata, issues, for example, sexual fixation, sex parts, the part of ladies in Athenian customary religion and finally their part in the Oikos will frame the premise of the answer. The myths about the Lemnian and Amazonian ladies will likewise be joined in the our understanding to draw out the likenesses that exist between the myths and the play. In the greater part of Aristophanes' surviving plays, three were only devoted to ladies. These female figures in the plays uncover the general view of ladies at the time. All through the work I have appeared with important references from Aristophanes three 'ladies plays' his prominent estimation of ladies that molded his portrayal of ladies. We should remember that he composed intentionally for a male gathering of people and his reference to the practices of ladies ought to be acknowledged with some vital recompenses.

Lysistrata:

The issue of sex – strike has gradually picked up grounds as a type of political technique. The first of such was introduced in a parody by Aristophanes in his Lysistrata. Amid the fifth century, Athenian ladies withheld sexual favors from their spouses and sweethearts, as a reaction to challenge the Peloponnesian War. The ladies in the Lysistrata utilized this strategy of denying sexual joys to their spouses to force them to make due with peace.

Thesmophoriazusae :

In his second 'ladies plays', Aristophanes parodies a selective ladies' custom experience the Thesmophoria. It was a celebration celebrated for the advancement of human ripeness and farming. The Thesmophoria was celebrated by hitched Athenian ladies and it went on for three days. Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae utilizes comic gadget of part inversion and copy universes in which ladies are the principle characters. The play is about the skirmish of genders in the theater. The ladies at first censure Euripides and after that arrangement approaches to rebuff him since they trust he sustains sexist generalization about them in his plays.

Ecclesiazusae :

In his last 'ladies plays' Aristophanes presents to his gathering of people a curiosity in his portrayal of ladies: ladies masked as men to oust the administration and control Athenians in a socialism. The pith of the power takeover in the play originates from the way that Athenian men have turned out to be unfit in their administration of state reserves. Since ladies have the regular capacity to look after the family, they (ladies) propose that the control of state which is pretty much a greater family ought to be given to the ladies. Praxagora,in her idealistic arrangement proposes a guarantee. She guarantees that there will be an open responsibility for properties including land.

2. The war was crushing to Athens and obviously Aristophanes needed the states to make peace. It has been proposed by a few faultfinders that Aristophanes influenced ladies to attack and catch the Akropolis in light of the fact that they were the most minimal monsters of Greek culture. Aristophanes was remarking on the absurdity of the war where silly animals must guide the men. It is difficult to know precisely what Aristophanes proposed in his dramatization, yet what we can see is that he firmly denounces war. While the reality of the matter is that ladies were of low rank in Greek society, Aristophanes suggests that ladies are to some degree shrewd animals and ought to be incidentally tuned in to.