Gender Roles In Lysistrata

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Life before we knew it had changed. Near 400 BCE,, plays from Aeschylus and Aristophanes were going in depth about the great wars and their rulers. For the two plays, Agamemnon and Lysistrata, both had opposite oppositions. In some cases, the gender roles played a huge issue for that time, but the women seem to have had a lot of the control in these plays. Many of the different themes, tones, and time periods had a major effect on the plays, which is what made them so diverse from each other. The women of Lysistrata are only seeking peace from the war. Their husbands have been away for many decades and they have finally decided that it has been long enough. “My husbands been away five months in Thrace. Somebody’s gotta watch the general.

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