The Peloponnesian War Years: Darkness and Light

Question 1

The Athenians’ disastrous invasion of this island during the Peloponnesian War has sometimes been compared to the French and American involvement in Vietnam:

Answer 1

The Invasion of Sicily

Question 2

It has been known for at least a generation that the epidemic which hit Athens in 430 BCE was definitely not:

Answer 2

The bubonic plague

Question 3

Aristophanes is the only Greek writer with complete or even nearly complete works in
this genre of comedy available to us today:

Answer 3

Middle Comedy and Old Comedy

Question 4

In which play did Aristophanes write, in connection with the Peloponnesian War,
“Women can do no worse than men have done?”

Answer 4

Lysistrata (or Assemblywomen)