Essays Tagged: "Myrrhine"
A chapter-to-chapter study summary of Aristophanes' Greek comedy "Lysistrata", exploring the aspects of the 'Tragic Cycle'
e 'true' gentleman - the way all men should behave towards women.Scene - Lysistrata, Man and Woman, Myrrhine, Cinesias, HeraldCinesias is in a troubled situation, as he complains of his deprivation of ... s wife, and his actions are 'in obvious and extreme sexual excitement' - he begs the women to bring Myrrhine to him. He desires to see her because he is upset to find his household empty, and also due ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
Aristophanes' Lysistrata - Example of Comedy Play
omen, we see one specific conversation of a man and his wife. The man (Kinesias) comes to his wife (Myrrhine), clearly desperate with an obvious erection, and begs her to lie down with him. She tormen ... ly has to run home for several items to make their love nest more comfortable. This clearly is just Myrrhine's way of putting Kinesias off until he is desperate enough to listen to her appeals. In the ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
Lysistrata by Aristophanes: A personal opinion
o which they intend to go to carry out their plan. The scene where Cinesias comes to visit his wife Myrrhine and she taunts him mercilessly with her constant running back to get things is quite humoro ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
Exploration notes: Plots and Sub-Plots of "Lysistrata".
ht for a second time. They are interrupted by Lysistrata who spies a man approaching the Akropolis. Myrrhine, a young Athenian woman, recognizes the man as her husband Kinesias. Lysistrata tells Myrrh ... ata teases him relentlessly. Kinesias, in obvious physical distress, tries many tactics to convince Myrrhine to come home and have sex with him. Myrrhine appears to succumb, suggesting that they have ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama