Overview
Choose one of the following prompts and write a five-to-six-page paper. Follow the Paper Guidelines which can be found under the Files tab.
1. Euripides:
Aristophanes stages Euripides as a character across three plays. Ultimately, do you consider this to be a sign of respect or a sign of mockery? Engage with at least two of the following plays: Acharnians, Women at the Thesmophoria, and Frogs.
2. Socrates:
Can we reconstruct a historical Socrates based on Aristophanes’ Clouds and Plato’s Symposium? If so, describe this historical Socrates and how you used the sources to piece him together. If not, explain why not using these same sources.
3. Birds:
Does Aristophanes construct Peisetaerus to be a positive character, i.e. one whom his audience roots for?
4. Lysistrata:
Does Aristophanes illustrate panHellenism in Lysistrata as a farce or as a realistic potential future?
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