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Ancient Greece Athenian Women
1,187 wordsAristophanes was a satirist who produced Lysistrata around 413 BC when the news of Athens warships had been destroyed near Sicily. For twenty-one years, while Athens was engaged in war, he relentlessly and witty 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. It primarily deals with two themes, war and the power of sexuality......
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Century B C Role Reversal
1,185 wordsAristophanes was a "craft" comedy poet in the fourth century B. C. during the time of the Peloponnesian War. Aristophanes' usual style was to be too satirical, and suggesting the outlandish. He shows little mercy when mocking Socrates and his "new-fangled ideas" which were most likely designed to destroy the cohesiveness of society and lead to The most absurd and humorous of Aristophanes' comedies are those in which the main characters, the heroes of the story, are women. Smart One of the most f...
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Gods And Goddesses City Of Troy
1,287 wordsThe Trojan War took place in approximately the 13 th century. The ancient Greeks defeated the City of Troy. The Trojan War started after an incident at the wedding feast of Peleus, the king of Thessaly, and Thetis, a sea goddess. All the gods and goddesses of Mt. Olympus had been invited except Eris, the goddess of discord. Eris was offended and tried to stir up trouble among the guests at the feast. She sent a golden apple inscribed For the most beautiful. Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite each claim...
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Peace Was Made Cities That Were At War Women
567 wordsBy most accounts Aristophanes was the greatest comic writer of his day. On his shoulders alone rests an entire age of comedy. By the time Aristophanes began to write his comedies, the people of Athens were increasingly demoralized by the ongoing conflicts of the Peloponnesian War. That is why in most of his plays there are tones of apprehension and grief. Lysistrata was written twenty-one years into the Peloponnesian War. Although the play is light-hearted, it was written out of the writers grie...
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Values And Of The Athenians Thru Parthenon
969 wordsIn the 5 th century BCE Athens was thriving. At the time the Parthenon was built, in the 440 s and 430 s BCE on the Acropolis at Athens, Athens had more wealth and more subordinate allies than any other Greek city had ever had before. With a bit of arrogance, they decided to go through with an enormous building project despite the objections and embarrassment of a few. The Parthenon was the largest temple built on the Acropolis, the hill the building project took place on. Some of the other buil...
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5 Th Century North And South
1,653 words... regions of this early temple are significant. With 6 columns across the front and back and 16 on each side (counting the corner columns twice), the temple has a ratio of length to width of nearly three to one. As time passed, Greek architects felt these proportions were too elongated. They progressively reduced the temples length relative to its width, until by the mid- 5 th century the ratio was slightly more than two to one. The Parthenon in Athens (447 - 432 BC), for example, has 17 colum...
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Athenian Democracy City States
613 wordsMountains, valleys, and water isolate Greece. Hundreds of islands are scattered along its coast. As a result of this type of geography, Greece could never become a large unified empire, so instead, small city-states were created. A city-state was known as a "polis." A polis was made up of a two different parts; the lower ground was the main city, which was housed within a large wall. The upper ground was the hilltop acropolis. These acropolis' were used as military posts, and for religious pract...
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Second Class Citizens Beginning Of The Play
1,010 wordsHuman beings are amazing creatures. Our history has shown spectacular and shameful events from day one. Throughout the course of history we have seen both war and peace. More war than peace, but the point still remains. That we, as a human race, have accomplished many wonderful intellectual break-throughs but we have also done very stupid deeds. Its amazing how a creature of such great intelligence could separate, segregate, discriminate, dehumanize, and enslave members of its own human race. Th...
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Money Aristophanes 33 Comic Poet Lysistrata
1,048 wordsPlato on Aristophanes "The Age of Heroes was passed and the Age of Iron was come. " (Lord 31) This age was the time when Aristophanes, the great Greek comic-poet, had lived and produced his fine works of literature. Aristophanes was "born an Athenian citizen some time in the decade following 450 BC" (Lord 21) "The Peloponnesian War began in 431 BC and dragged its weary course till 404 BC" (Lord 22 - 23) Aristophanes lived to see his city shorn of all her power, her fleets scattered and dismantle...
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Gods And Goddesses City Of Troy
1,292 wordsThe Trojan War The Trojan War took place in approximately the 13 th century. The ancient Greeks defeated the City of Troy. The Trojan War started after an incident at the wedding feast of Peleus, the king of Thessaly, and Thetis, a sea goddess. All the gods and goddesses of Mt. Olympus had been invited except Eris, the goddess of discord. Eris was offended and tried to stir up trouble among the guests at the feast. She sent a golden apple inscribed? For the most beautiful. ? Hera, Athena, and Ap...
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Shock Treatments Sierra Club
1,406 wordsThe The Silent Destroyer 11 / 22 / 00 The Silent Destroyer America the Beautiful! So why are we destroying it everyday with the use of pesticides? It has been proven that pesticides have affects on its surrounding, although made to improve earths resources, they typically take there negative effect on the environment in time. Pesticides affect more than the environment; they also affect the animals and humans living in the environment. There are alternative, to this major problem but, we as the ...
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Actors Wore Comic Actors Chorus
479 wordsGreek tragedy and comedy originated with the chorus, the most important part of the performance space was the orchestra, which means a place for dancing (orthosis). A typical tragic Greek chorus was a group of some twelve to fifteen masked men just about to enter military service after some years of training (Athenians were taught to sing and dance from a very early age. ) An old comedic chorus consisted of up to twenty four men. The effort of dancing and singing through three tragedies and a sa...
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Archaic Period Early Classical
1,122 wordsBy Greek Art Greek Art By Lizette There are three major categories of Greek sculpture: freestanding statues, architectural sculpture, and non architectural reliefs. The principal subjects of Greek sculpture are gods, heroes of legend, and athletes, youths, or maidens intended to demonstrate ideals of beauty. Whatever the subject, category, or material, the typical Greek sculpture was basically spiritual in function. Most statues and reliefs were dedicated as offerings in sanctuaries to please or...
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Century B C 5 Th Century
1,169 wordsDuring the 5 th Century B. C. , the Athenians government, religion, and architecture were three of the most important aspects of their polis. The Athenians had a very good understanding of government, literature, and science, and had more influence on our civilization than any other people in history. The Classical Period in Greece lasted 150 years from 480 to 300 B. C. This is when ancient Greek civilization was at its peak. Athens population was about 300, 000 people. The Athenians developed a...
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19 Th Century House Of Commons
944 wordsTitle: History of the Elgin Marbles Content: A history of the Elgin Marbles that are now in a Museum in England but were originally apart of the greek Parthenon The Elgin Marbles were taken from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin in the 19 th century, and placed in the British Museum. They are considered by many to be one of the most important features of the Acropolis of Athens (were they there). The Greek government has demanded their return on several occasions, and the British government has refuse...
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Pediment Sculptures Floor Plan Parthenon
626 wordsGreek The Parthenon The Parthenon Greek culture blossomed after the Persian Wars. General Pericles around the 450? s BC led the reconstruction of Athens; which became the most beautiful city in all of Greece. Price? s greatest structure built under his command was the Parthenon. The Parthenon was a temple built for the patron goddess Athena (goddess of wisdom and art). Construction started 447 BC and continued until 432 BC. The structure is located in Athens Greece, on the acropolis. The archite...
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End A War Withhold Sex Women
1,262 wordsLysistrata Untitled By: April Gibbs Lysistrata by Aristophanes I think the story of Lysistrata is both interesting and surprising. I did not expect a story that was written in 411 BC to have much of anything I could relate to our world today. Aristophanes deals with very real, every day issues in this story. Although he is actually poking fun at them by making the situations as absurd as possible, there are still many very real topics discussed in this work. I think the most prevalent theme is t...
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