T C 357: Comedy, Ancient and Modern

Aristophanes' Lysistrata: Some Images

Athens in 411 BCE: The Peloponnesian War

• Map of the Greek world--the Mediterranean
• Map of Peloponnesian War
• Map of Attica

Setting: The Acropolis

• Aerial view of the Acropolis
• The Parthenon
• The Parthenon: Plan
• The Parthenon: Reconstruction of the Pronaos
• Model of the Statue of Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon
• The Parthenon: Restoration of the Cella

Women in Ancient Athens

• Grave relief of a young woman, ca. late 5th - early 4th c. BC
• Attic White-ground lekythos by the Achilles Painter, ca. 440. A warrior or hoplite takes leave of his wife (who is seated on a chair), offering her his helmet.
• Marriage and Family Life (Courtesy Archaeonia)

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