Part one of term paper
In this paper I will demonstrate why I believe, contrary to widespread opinion and possible even his own, that Aristophanes, not Euripides, was, of the four major dramatists fo Athens' Golden Age, the one who least respected women. Having become aware at the ouset of this leterrature course of the position of women in the otherwise enlighten ...

Part two of term paper
... Nevertheless, that is where I found it. In interpreting attitudes toward women in the dramas, I accepts certain prevailing tradtions as given and tried to give the playwrights the benefit of the doubt, turning my head at such practices as using only male actors in the plays and leaving the women in the kitchen while attending the plays. Having concedes those points, I set about "listening" to the playwrights. In Agamemnon, Aeschylus addresses some remarks toward his Clytaemnestra which coul ...