Introduce of Western Literature: Week 13

Aristophanes' Lysistrata

Introduction of Aristophanes.
Aristophanes was a prolific and much acclaimed comic playwright of ancient Greece,sometimes referred to as the Father of Comedy.Eleven of his forty plays have come down to us virtually complete (along with up to with 1,000 brief fragments of other works), and are the only real examples we have of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy.Aristophanes' works recreate the ,life of ancient Athens perhaps more convincingly than those of any other author,although his biting satire and ridicule of his contemporaries often came close to slander.

Introduction of Lysistrata.
"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 peace.Some cosider it his greatest work, and it is probably the most anthologized.