What is the meaning of the wool working analogy used by Lysistrata?

What is the meaning of the wool working analogy used by Lysistrata?

Lysistrata tells her captive audience member how Greece should be taken care of and repaired. The extended wool metaphor she employs describes Athens as a whole city, as a body of citizens. Lysistrata believes that the whole city must be cleaned and the burs, or bad men, and corruption should be removed.

What does weaving symbolize in Lysistrata?

By Aristophanes. Using “sewing” or “spinning” or “weaving” as a metaphor for “togetherness” has a long and illustrious history. And, hey, even if they were cliché, Aristophanes has the playwriting chops to pull them off.

What metaphor does Lysistrata use to explain the end of the war and the way to govern well?

In the Lysistrata, weaving is offered as a metaphor for a tyrannical refashioning of the polis. In strikingly similar terms, the Eleatic Stranger of the Statesman proposes weaving as a metaphor for the best form of government.

What does Lysistrata use to help persuade the ambassadors to listen to her?

She calls on the goddess Reconciliation to grasp the Athenian and Spartan ambassadors by their phalluses and bring them to her. Lysistrata scolds the ambassadors for forgetting their natural alliance and persuades them to conclude their peace negotiations.

Why is Lysistrata annoyed at the beginning of the play?

Lysistrata is not only angered because the women won’t prioritize war and the peace of their country, but she is ashamed that the women won’t stand up to the stereotypes and names that their husband’s give them. Lysistrata tells Kleonike, “I’m positively ashamed to be a woman”, and Kleonike proudly admits, “That’s us!”

What metaphor does Lysistrata use when describing her plan to stop the war?

Lysistrata used spinning wool as a metaphor to describe how woman know how to untangle knots and messes, but it’s the men who tangles up the wool aka war.

How does Lysistrata propose to end the fighting?

Lysistrata has planned a meeting between all of the women of Greece to discuss the plan to end the Peloponnesian War. The women from the various regions finally assemble and Lysistrata convinces them to swear an oath that they will withhold sex from their husbands until both sides sign a treaty of peace.

What do the women’s chorus use on the old men’s chorus to get them to stop?

A chorus of old women carrying pitchers of water then enters. They confront the old men and a verbal battle ensues, ending with the chorus of women dumping their pitchers of water over the men’s heads.

Why was Lysistrata banned?

Aristophanes’ play about a group of women who try to end the Peloponnesian War by refusing sex to their husbands, was censored after its release in 411 BC because it was “unacceptably subversive”. The controversy surfaced again in Junta-era Greece, when the military rulers banned it for its anti-war themes.

What is Lysistrata’s plan for ending the war?

In attendance at the meeting are women from Athens and other cities, including Sparta. At the meeting, Lysistrata announces her plan: the women should all refuse to have sex with their husbands until their husbands end the war.

How do the Athenians and Spartans reconcile in Lysistrata?

Lysistrata instructs Reconciliation to stand between the Athenians and the Spartans, holding one member of each delegation by the hand—or by whatever else she can grab (seriously). Once Reconciliation is in place, Lysistrata launches into her speech.

Who is the leader of the old women’s chorus in Lysistrata?

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Character	Description
Lampito	Lampito is a Spartan woman who answers Lysistrata’s call to meeting.
Leader of the Chorus	The Leader of the Chorus heads the Chorus of Old Men and the Chorus of Old Women after they reconcile and become one chorus.