[DOC] [TLE] HIST 101 Lysistrata, by Aristophanes (411 BCE) Reading guide and ... [PAR] Athens had only recently suffered a great reverse in her long war against Sparta 
and her allies ... Main Characters ... She may be loosely based on a real 
Athenian woman, Lysimache (whose name means "Dissolver of battle"), who was 
the chief priestess of Athena in 411 and appears to have been an opponent of 
the war. [DOC] [TLE] Peace (play) - Wikipedia [PAR] Peace (Greek:  Eirn) is an Athenian Old Comedy written and produced 
by the Greek playwright Aristophanes. ... War, he says, has imprisoned Peace in 
a cave nearby. ... All the early plays of Aristophanes were written and acted 
against a background of war. ... His son is a character who sings war-like songs. [DOC] [TLE] Get in Formation, This is an Emergency: The Politics of Choral Song ... [PAR] lows its anti-war message to transcend time, place, and cul- ture and speak ... by 
real people: the name of the title character, Lysistrata, seems to be a play on. [DOC] [TLE] Sample Chapter for Connelly, J.B.: Portrait of a Priestess: Women ... [PAR] Sample Chapter for Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient ... have 
been easy enough for cities to organize their priesthoods on the model of ..... 
however, that sacrifices offered by priests and priestesses may not have had .... 
Perhaps the most celebrated female character in all of Greek literature is 
Aristophanes'... [DOC] [TLE] Lysistrata - Dictionary definition of Lysistrata | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] Weary of the war between Athens and Sparta, the wives of both cities resolve not 
to ... This may have something to do with the fact that Sparta seems forever to 
have ... the warring parties, Aristophanes wrote Lysistrata, whose title character 
rebukes .... At the time of Lysistrata, a woman named Lysimache served as 
priestess;... [DOC] [TLE] Joan Breton Connelly, Portrait of a Priestess, Chapter 3. - iSites [PAR] For the priesthood of Athena Polias at Athens we have a wealth ..... This is 
Lysimache, che Hfst identifiable Priestess of Athena Polias, whose ... Characters 
from Aristophanes' Lysistrata can be seen to embody two models for .... that this 
choral leader may have been inspired by the model of a historical priestess of 
Demeter. [DOC] [TLE] ERA - University of Alberta [PAR] Aristophanes' comedy Lysistrata has been a favorite choice for anti-war activists 
.... There were readings that may have been rooted in the desire to stop the rush 
to .... female characters in Lysistrata and the concept of gender in Greek society 
to ...... 2 The name of the priestess Lysimache translates to Releaser of Battle,... [DOC] [TLE] Aristophanes female plays [henderson 2010] by Bouvard - issuu [PAR] Mar 23, 2016 ... Title: Aristophanes female plays [henderson 2010], Author: Bouvard, Name: ... 
religion and government, war and peace, theater and festival, and, of course, to 
men. .... Even the female characters of epic and tragedy suit this emphasis ..... 
Aristophanes' portrait of Sokrates may have been nonsensical but... [DOC] [TLE] WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE [PAR] Many of the historical sources have been lost, and histories preserved from ... 
give us evidence of women as strong, central characters in Greek tragedies ... 
representations of their chief goddess, who is nameless or a priestess for this 
goddess. ... of the Trojan War, and that Helen had a famous Egyptian potion that 
relieved... [DOC] [TLE] Reconciling Aristophanes and the Twenty-First Century Audience [PAR] May 21, 2013 ... Designing Lysistrata: Reconciling Aristophanes ... criticism, and general advice 
have been invaluable to my .... To an extent, it may even be .... of the men will 
take up a spear against the rest .... Nor I. By Zeus, let the war crawl on! ...... 
character of Lysistrata on a woman called Lysimache, the priestess of... [DOC] [TLE] Courtesans Reconsidered: Women in Aristophanes' Lysistrata [PAR] almost without exception supported the view that the play models its ... depilation, 
may have been based on the hetaera comedy of

Question: Lysimache, an antiwar priestess, may have been the model for this Aristophanes title character
Answer: Lysistrata