Aristophanes lysistrata text6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() This core situation of the play provides an intra-dramatic reflection of the relationship between the poet and his audience, as set up in the parabasis. Thus, the remaining pro-war Chorus-men are also convinced for the justice of Dicaeopolis’ cause. Dicaeopolis then employs demagogic rhetoric in order to denounce Lamachus as a coward and simultaneously promote himself as a good soldier that conscientiously fights for the city. Dicaeopolis makes a speech on the origins of the war, a masterful piece of comic oratory, which divides the Chorus half of the Acharnians are won over to the hero’s side, but the other half persist in their warlike attitude and call general Lamachus to assistance. ![]() Dicaeopolis, the hero of Aristophanes’ Acharnians, wishes to end the Peloponnesian war but meets with opposition from the Chorus of Acharnian elders, ardent supporters of military action against Sparta. ![]()
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