Lysistrata

Reading Check and Short Answer Questions on key points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

PROLOGUE-CHORAL EPISODE 1

Reading Check

1. Where does the play open?

2. Who is Calonice?

3. Where is Lampito from?

4. How does the first Choral Episode end?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. What is Lysistrata’s plan to end the Peloponnesian War?

2. What are the older women doing while Lysistrata speaks to the younger women? Why are they doing this?

3. Why is the half-chorus of old men surprised by the half-chorus of old women? What does their interaction reveal about the role of women in ancient Greece?

Paired Resources

The Roles, Rights, and Lives of Women in Ancient Greece

• This short but informative video provides insight on the rights and roles of ancient Greek women.
• This video connects to the theme of Greek Women.
• How were women generally expected to behave in ancient Greece? How do the women of Aristophanes’s play depart from this norm?

Ancient Greek Democracy

• This article from History.com explains the birth of democracy with Cleisthenes’s reforms in Athens in the sixth Century BCE.
• This information connects to the theme of Athenian Politics.