main points from passages test 2 Flashcards
Aristophanes’ Lysistrata Main character
Lysistrata - Athenian wife and leader
Aristophanes’ Lysistrata Plot line
Women stage a sex strike in order to get men to stop the war
Euripides’ Suppliant Women main female character
Aethra, mother of Theseus
Euripides’ Suppliant Women main male character
Theseus, king of Athens
Euripides’ Suppliant Women forms of female agency
Religious activities, social status, power as mothers, female networks, female song traditions
Euripides’ Suppliant Women plot line
After a war, the women are not allowed to carry out their funerary rituals. The women go to Aethra to ask her to persuade Theseus, which she does
Sabine Women plot
Romans invited Sabines to a religious festival and kidnapped and raped women. The women stopped the fight between their husbands and fathers
Lucretia main female character
Lucretia
Sabine Women, what does it tell us?
Importance of woman, as mothers to Roman state formation, expansion of Rome through marriage, values of self sacrifice for state
Lucretia main male character
Tarquinius, king of Etruscans
Lucretia plot
Tarquinius lusted over Lucretia when he saw her working at night and raped her. She said she lost her honor (pudicitia) and killed herself
Virginia plot
Patrician judge attempts to seduce Virginia and when that fails he has her kidnapped. Her father kills her to stop her from being raped (which he can do because of potestas)
Cloelia plot
Cloelia is part of a group of that got captured, she lead an escape and freed adolescent boys
Cloelia character description
A maiden (virgo) who showed manly courage (virtus)
Cloelia themes
gender fluidity in adolescence, defense of virginity, allegiance to Rome, inviolability of elite citizen bodies, male transgression requires female response
