Some Bibliography on Aristophanes’ Lysistrata
“The Lysistrata as a Post-Deceleian Peace Play”by Matthew Dillon in TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 117 (1987) 97-104.
Insufficient attention has been paid to fertility as the dominant motif in this complex of metaphors about peace and war, and to the consistencey of related motifs in all the peace plays prior to the Lysistrata. In this paper I wish to maintain that Aristophanes had developed a poetic perspective for the presentation of peace and war, and that external circumstances, specifically the Spartan investment of Deceleia in 413 B.C., inspired him to vary this perspective significantly in the Lysistrata,from an essentially agrarian to an exclusively human point of view. The result was an advance in the presentation of women on the comic stage, and a more realistic appraisal of the effects of peace and war not on crops, but on human lives.
“Salvation and female heroics in the parodos of Aristophanes’
Lysistrata” by Christopher A. Faraone, Journal of Hellenic Studies 117 (1997) 38-59.
The separate entrances of the male and female choruses are marked by an unusual bit of stagecraft whose importance to a general theme of the play — the salvation of Athens — has never been fully appreciated. Full text available: http://www.jstor.org/view/00754269/ap020138/02a00030/0
“The Female Intruder Reconsidered: Women in Aristophanes’
Lysistrata and Ecclesiazusae,” by Helene P. Foley, Classical Philology 77 (1982) 1-21 / Full text available: http://www.jstor.org/view/0009837x/ap010305/01a00020/0
“Aristophanes and Male Anxiety — the Defence of the Oikos,” by J. F. Gardner, Greece & Rome 36 (1989) 51-62 / Full text available: http://www.jstor.org/view/00173835/ap020137/02a00060/0
“The Women on the Acropolis: a Note on the Structure
of the Lysistrata,” by A. O. Hulton, Greece & Rome 19 (1972) 32-36 / Full
text available: http://www.jstor.org/view/00173835/ap020103/02a00050/0
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