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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Lysistrata"”.
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Studies in the 'Lysistrata' of Aristophanes
Commentary on Aristophanes' $\textit{Lysistrata}$.
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A phallic play: Examining 5<sup>th</sup> century cultural references to illuminate aristophanes' appeal for peace to a modern audience
<p>Aristophanes’ <em>Lysistrata</em> is a popular work for contemporary production. Written in 411 BCE, the work explores what happens when the females of Athens participate in a sex strike in order to coerce the males to end the Peloponnesian War. By exploring cultural references to symbols in …
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Aristophanic Oracles
… or refer to, oracles (Knights, Peace, Birds, Lysistrata). This thesis aims (a) to discuss Aristophanes’ stance toward oracles and oracle-collections; (b) to comment on each oracle in these four plays in chronological order, and to reach conclusions regarding Aristophanes’ usage of them while …
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Hyper-Democracy: The Politics of Aristophanes
… comic worlds, with close readings of Acharnians, Lysistrata, Assemblywomen and Frogs. We move, in other words, from Brechtian ‘defamiliarization’ to Rancièrian dissensus – a move Rancière himself makes when addressing the thorny issue of the political efficacy of art, discussed in my ‘parabasis’ …
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Aristophanes And The Poetics Of Low Comedy
… dichotomy functions in Wasps (chapter four), Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusae (chapter five), and Frogs (chapter six). In each case I demonstrate that the comedies metatheatrically enact the dichotomy revealing the necessity of low comedy as a foundational element of the comic genre. Unlike …