Lysistrata (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Aristophanes
- First Published: 411
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: Fifth century b.c.e.
- 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
Places Discussed
*Athens. Capital and city-state of the peninsula of Attica, a province of east central Greece. Firmly established as a cultural, political, and commercial center by 429 b.c.e., Athens became an imperialistic empire and naval power. In 431 b.c.e. it began its war with Sparta, the powerful city-state of southern Greece’s Peloponnesian Peninsula. Aristophanes depicts Athens at a time when it was suffering naval and military disasters and undergoing chaotic political and social conditions, which he uses to give Athenian women a motivation for striking. It is...
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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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