Topics for Lys. and the Aeneid Discussion

Lysistrata

• Comedy--how it is created and its purpose
• Stereotypes of women and men. How the play does and doesn't support them.
• Role of women in Greek society as presented
• Power in men and women
• The place of sex in the world--Greek attitudes
  
• Athens/Sparta

Aeneid

• The Roman character and gravitas
  
• Dido, her passion and death
  
• The Gods
• The Underworld (compared to previous afterlives)
• The sacking of Troy
• Carthage
• The poetic style of Virgil
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