Lysistrata: Women, War and Protest in Ancient Greece
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- Lysistrata is the most popular of Aristophanes' works in the 21st century. Why tho? Well, here's a messily put together video explaining some of it.
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Also here are the videos I show in the last part of the video, in case you were interested.
• Women call sex strike ...
I did not expect to see the Legally Blonde Greek Chorus while studying for my exams but i am certainly not complaining.
My drama teacher talked about this in class today and I needed to search it up immediately
I’ve discovered you with this, and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Your expertise is matched by your ability to communicate uncondescendingly with a lay audience, which is just what the doctor ordered. The song “Lysistrata” by Todd Rundgren & his band Utopia piqued my interest and unfurled my sail, so I surfed in. Thanks for the education!
Amazing, just Amazing . Keep on making videos. Please.
This was genuinely so entertaining to watch
This was excellent and exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
Thank you soooo much for this video. Helped me with my college presentation 😭💗🫂✨
Well researched video, good quality stuff my guy
That was fun. I've never sought out any classical Greek authors. It's nice to know what Lysistrata is about, but extra nice to understand it with some context. Now, if you'll do all the other Greeks, then the Romans, then f-ing Shakespeare, I'll understand my world at last! Thanks!
It will take me a while but we'll get all the way to Shakespeare eventually
@@generichistory You will? OMG...I'll have to fan-boy you now and forever. AWKWARD! Sigh. Later, Hero Mine
Who?!!!!!??
I really wish this wasn't so relevant right now
Great stuff!
A great play, and I don't think it beyond the imagination of an intelligent Athenian male at the time to see the injustice in their treatment of women. I think it also possible that women of lower rank in many patriarchal societies may have had more liberty.
If I were to time-travel to ancient Greece as a woman I would want to be a Spartan woman.
Would Lysistrata make more sense if she were Spartan? She seems to have a Spartan take-charge attitude.
So helpful ! Thank you
What? You've never done the old Lion and Cheese grater? It's like the Grizzly and the garbage can, but at a 45 degree angle. Oh, and you'll also need that bowl of olives.
Great video and I really like your take on subjects. There is more of an awareness with you than I see with most "History" channels that don't reflect on any of the subject matter, but rather just read it out in a very fact like manner. That certainly gives your channel a lot more of a personality.
Oh so it's similar to the fish in a barrel but with less noise?
Thanks, the two Aristophanes videos were a little bit of an experiment in subject matter, but im glad they turned out well
Never heard of the play (probably should've), so it was a great listen, thanks!
This made me think... was artistic freedom a thing in Athens / Hellenic world in general? It almost seems such "insubordinate" authors (or against-the-grain attitudes) get more persecution nowadays than it was long time ago.
No worries! Artistic freedom was sadly not much of a thing in Ancient Athens. Aristophanes himself was prosecuted at one point for slandering the city and even stopped writing for a while when the politics of Athens got too turbulent and dangerous. So I don’t think artistic freedom was very widespread in Greece. Though maybe it was more common (relatively speaking) in a democratic state like Athens!
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Great stuff, but make more videos about homosexuality in Ancient times
Yeah alright, would you rather see one on Greece, Rome, or somewhere else?
@@generichistory If you do Byzantium, I'd be into that. I literally found to channel trying to find videos about homosexuality in the Byzantine Empire.
@@erraticonteuse It would take me a bit of time to research, but a Byzantine/late antiquity video would probably be quite good
@@generichistory You can look at the tumbler girl Elveo. She is an Russian artist and posts a lot of historical information about homosexuality in Persia and the Middle East in general. It would be nice if someone on CZcams did that topic as well. her link - elveo-art.tumblr.com/