Lysistrata

High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/lysistrata

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the playwright?Aristophanes
2. What is the date of first performance?Circa 411 BCE
3. What is the play "Lysistrata" about?It is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes where women stop a war by refusing to talk to their husbands.
4. Why did the women in the play refuse to talk to their husbands?They wanted to end the long Peloponnesian War and show that war is silly.

Satire: The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices.
Patriarchy: A social system in which men hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege, and control of property.
Polis: An ancient Greek city-state, considered as a political community.
Subversion: The undermining of the power and authority of an established system or institution.