Lysimache, an antiwar priestess, may have been the model for this Aristophanes title character
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Peace (play) - Wikipedia  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.
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HIST 101 Lysistrata, by Aristophanes (411 BCE) Reading guide and ...  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.
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Get in Formation, This is an Emergency: The Politics of Choral Song ...  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.
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Lysistrata - Dictionary definition of Lysistrata | Encyclopedia.com ...  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;...
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Sample Chapter for Connelly, J.B.: Portrait of a Priestess: Women ...  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'...
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Brave Women Warriors Of Greek Myth: An Amazon Roster - Whoosh!  She was the first to attack Herakles when he came for Hippolyte's girdle. Unfortunately ... Alkaia was one of Queen Andromache's Amazon generals. Her name means .... The Caucasus Mountains were once called, "The Marpesians," after her. Marpesia was killed by a group of barbarians during an Asian attack. Her name...
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Jungian Archetypes of the Mythic Unconscious  The genitals that fell into the sea give birth to Aphrodite, goddess of love. ... and burial beneath the earth-- represent a psychic aspect that has not yet split into doubleness. ... Rhea tricked Kronos so that he wouldn't devour her newborn infant, Zeus. ...... split his head open with an axe and Athena leaped forth in full armor.
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A study in reception: the British debates over Aristophanes' politics ...  scholars are linked to earlier critics who considered the same questions but whose ... context in which the plays were presented: 'the prevalence of a satirical .... Tyrant (1820) and Beardsley's erotic illustrations of the Lysistrata (1896)). ... 'uncommonly licentious; the profligate characters of Aristophanes and his contemporar-.
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MOIRAE (Moirai) - The Fates, Greek Goddesses of Fate & Destiny ...  The Moirae were the three ancient Greek goddesses of fate who personified the ... Clotho who spun the thread of life, Lachesis who measured it, and Atropos who ... The Moirai were described as ugly, old women and were sometimes lame. ... These grave and mighty goddesses were represented by the earliest artists with...
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Medea - Wikipedia  In Greek mythology, Medea is a sorceress who was the daughter of King Aetes of Colchis, ... Medea figures in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, a myth known best from a ... Medea distracted her father as they fled by killing her brother Absyrtus. ... In some versions, Medea was said to have dismembered his body and...
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1 The Living Art of Greek Tragedy Marianne McDonald, Ph.D., MRIA ...  of whose plays survive out of approximately eighty; Sophocles (ca. 496-406 ...... Ismene, the sister who tries to dissuade Antigone from burying their brother, acts as a ...... Jean Cocteau provided spoken interludes for Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex (1927), an ...... Harrison has written an opera libretto which delineates polarities or...
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch: Ch. 9 ...  Minerva. That mortal was Arachne, a maiden who had attained such skill in the arts ... skill, if she dare venture. ... Minerva touched her and transformed her into a spider. Spenser .... in mythology except Medusa, the Gorgon, whose story we shall next advert to. ... proud of her beauty, had dared to compare herself to the Sea-
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World Myths & Legends in Art - Minneapolis Institute of Arts  Antimenes painter's image of Athena meeting Herakles with her chariot. ..... Like Sinclair Lewis, he raised ordinary experiences of daily life in small ... The sign and tour guide suggest that Hoover had become famous by the ...... The civil war had severely damaged many temples, and artists set about ...... Eugene Delacroix.
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Mythology - Ray Sahelian, M.D.  Ares (mars) war cast apple of discord, The Amazon queen Hippolyta was the daughter of this war god, the Greek equivalent of Mars. Argus had 100 of eyes,...
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Ovid's Metamorphoses (Myth-Folklore Online)  Oct 9, 2004 ... Atalanta makes a challenge for her suitors. Perhaps you have heard of a girl who beat the fastest men at running: that was ... Hippomenes had taken his seat as a spectator at the unjust contest, and said ... youths, wants to destroy this one and send him in search of marriage, at the risk of his own dear life?
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Women and War: Power Play from Lysistrata to the Present  May 6, 2012 ... Parker notes in his introduction that the play is not merely about sex, but of ... But on the other hand, it is not until Lysistrata ... their society was pre-war, with their men back homenot to enact a ... When Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, attacked Sparta, the women refused to .... Peace for us without her (Parker 443).
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MythologyinMidsummer.doc - De Anza College  The story can also be found in Book 7 of Ovid'sMetamorphoses. under the ... hence the idea that her power, when transferred to a flower can counter the spell which ... Ironically, the Trojan army is aided in this conflict by the Amazons - and this was ... Paris, aided by Venus, persuaded her to elope with him, and carried her to...
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The Portraits of Alexander the Great - JStor  The conqueror of Europe and Persia (326-. 330 B.C.) . .... made by the court sculptor Lysippos. ... he did not accompany Alexander and as his his- ... early third century B.c. His romantic, rhetorical .... ways followed him to his battles, not one of which ..... the fourth century. ... scent, but also to the serpent which is said to have.
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gods15 - Geocities  She was also a monster and the mate of Typhon (who challenged all of the Greek Gods, and ... In myth the gryphon was sacred to Apollo, represented wisdom to Athena, and retribution to Nemesis. ... Her equally hideous sisters were Stheno and Euryale. ... particular myth in which Medusa was originally a beautiful maiden.
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The Amazons, the One-Breasted Women - Greeka.com  Hercules, the mightiest warrior in Greek mythology, is known for his twelve tasks. ... Queen Hippolyta was very pride for her golden girdle, gifted by her father Ares, the God of War. .... She has since been called the "Siberian Ice Maiden".
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Oedipus and Thebes; Jason and the Argonauts - pantherFILE  Oedipus and the Myths of Thebes; Jason and the Argonauts ... Thus Cadmus himself had to defeat the monster, as depicted here on a black-figure vase painting. .... Polyneices also sought the support of his father Oedipus, now living in exile at .... for the people of Colchis regarded it as a sacred object, and not something to...