Lysistrata (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Aristophanes
- First Published: 411
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The period of the Peloponnesian War
- Setting: Athens
- Genres: Satire, Drama, Comedy
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Feminism, War, Reformers, Greek or Roman times, Greece or Greek people, Pacifism
- Locales: Athens, ancient, Greece, ancient
Characters Discussed
Lysistrata (li-SIHS-trah-tah), an idealistic Athenian woman who is not content to stand submissively by and witness the obvious waste that war brings to the land. In her effort to bring a permanent peace to Greece, she demonstrates qualities that mark her as one of the archetypal revolutionaries: relentless fervor, cunning, and intractability. In addition to the traits of a revolutionary, Lysistrata possesses a healthy supply of inimitable wit and humor, qualities lacking in the ordinary stage conception of a revolutionary. She reasons and persuades the...
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Aristophanes (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Aristophanes (Drama)Aristophanes (Encyclopedia of the Ancient World)Aristophanes (Dictionary of World Biography)Aristophanes (Censorship)
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