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Monster Essays - Lysistrata
Aristophanes 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
anarchy, in his play The Clouds.
The most absurd and humorous of Aristophanes' comedies are those in
which the main characters, the heroes of the story, are women. Smart
women.
One of the most famous of Aristophanes' comedies depicting powerfully
effectual women is the Lysistrata, named after the f....
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