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Before the Propylaea, or gateway to the Acropolis of Athens, 411 BCE. Lysistrata (/ laɪˈsɪstrətə / or / ˌlɪsəˈstrɑːtə /; Attic Greek: Λυσιστράτη, Lysistrátē, lit.'army disbander') is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC.
4 paź 2024 · In ancient Greek drama, the chorus was a group of actors who explained and commented on the play's action and themes, usually through song or chant. Initially, the chorus played a significant...
“Lysistrata” is a bawdy anti-war comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, first staged in 411 BCE. It is the comic account of one woman’s extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War, as Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands as a means of forcing the men to negotiate a ...
18 kwi 2017 · Lysistrata is an unusual Greek comedy because it has not one chorus, but two – one comprising men and the other comprising women (though of course, both choruses would have been played by men in the original Greek theatre).
The fierce, no-nonsense Chorus of Old Women seizes the Acropolis —site of the Athenian war treasury—as part of Lysistrata’s plan to end the Peloponnesian War. Using pitchers of water, the Chorus then repels the Chorus of Old Men as the latter attempts to burn and smoke the women out.
The Chorus of Lysistrata is split into two, the Chorus of Men and the Chorus of Women. The two choruses, both old and fragile, are incredibly comic elements of the text. As the members of the choruses have all reached and passed their prime, there is little sexual tension between the rival groups.
In Greek drama, a chorus is a homogenous, synchronized group of actors that typically comments on the action of the play and models the ideal audience response in speech, song, and dance; their leader and…
