Episode 36 Quiz

Welcome to the quiz for Episode 36: War and Peace and Sex. See what you remember about Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, and his real life career as a political satirist during the Peloponnesian War, by clicking “START” below!

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Myrrhine’s husband Cinesias arrives at the fortified Acropolis in order to:

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One of Lysistrata‘s most unusual and innovative features is its:

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This Spartan woman, one of Lysistrata’s acquaintances, joins Lysistrata’s sexual strike.

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This character tells an assembly, “You worship the same gods at the same shrines. . .And yet, though threatened by [Persian] foes / You ruin Greece’s towns and slay her men.”

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Aristophanes’ Lysistrata was first staged in 411 BCE, during the 20th year of the ___________ War.

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Aristophanes spent his early career feuding with a warmongering demagogue named:

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A Spartan herald arrives most of the way through Lysistrata. His appearance is very distinct in that:

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The most important ancient historian of the Peloponnesian War, famous for his balanced accounts of international relations:

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Lysistrata hastens the reconciliation between Sparta and Athens by:

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While by 411 BCE Aristophanes clearly had pacifist tendencies, part of his opposition to the warmongering, new money populist demagogues of his city probably came from his:

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