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Lysistrata (Paperback)
Alex Struik; Translated by Jack Lindsay; Aristophanes
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R226
Discovery Miles 2 260
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Lysistrata (or "Army-disbander") is one of the few surviving plays
written by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens
in 411 BCE, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary
mission to end The Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata persuades the
women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands
and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace - a
strategy, however, that inflames the battle between the sexes. The
play is notable for being an early expose of sexual relations in a
male-dominated society. The dramatic structure represents a shift
away from the conventions of Old Comedy, a trend typical of the
author's career. It was produced in the same year as
Thesmophoriazusae, another play with a focus on gender-based
issues, just two years after Athens' catastrophic defeat in the
Sicilian Expedition. Aristophanes (circa 446 BC - 386 BC), son of
Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a comic playwright of
ancient Athens. Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete.
These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide
the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old
Comedy, and they are used to define the genre. Also known as the
Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy, Aristophanes has
been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly
than any other author.
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