Oedipus The King, The Iliad, And Lysistrata

In my World Civilization class, I have studied about the Greek Civilization. Alongside that, my World Literature class studied the following literary works: Medea, Oedipus The King, the Iliad, and Lysistrata. The meshing of these lectures has brought forth overlapping themes that connect history and literature together as one. Learning about the Greek's philosophy, democracy, religion, the arts, and society helped to clarify the literature works that I read. The Greek civilization intertwined throughout their literature by many themes, ideas, and concepts. This combined narrative reveals that history and literature often imitate each other such as in the wrath among civilizations, the concept of Arete, and the concept of Nike.
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Alongside that, my World Literature class studied the following literary works: Medea, Oedipus The King, the Iliad, and Lysistrata. The meshing of these lectures has brought forth overlapping themes that connect history and literature together as one. Learning about the Greek's philosophy, democracy, religion, the arts, and society helped to clarify the literature works that I read. The Greek civilization intertwined throughout their literature by many themes, ideas, and concepts. This combined narrative reveals that history and literature often imitate each other such as in the wrath among civilizations, the concept of Arete, and the concept of

In the Iliad, there was a prominent theme of wrath. One example of this is when Achilles found his best friend killed and rejoined the war to kill Hector. Another literary work filled with the wrath theme was Medea. She was full of anger for her husband Jason and killed their two sons because of it. Next is Lysistrata that shows a toned down version of wrath. In order to get their way, the woman in the play made an oath and refused to have sex with the men until they stopped the war. Another literary work that shows the wrath theme is Oedipus The King. In this play, the gods brought their wrath down on Oedipus for killing his father. The theme of wrath shows in the Greek civilization by the Delian league's wrath. The Delian league or Athens started to show their wrath when they pushed their beliefs on other towns. They wanted people to change to their system and when they did not, they brought their wrath upon them by strong-arming them into it. This later caused war with Sparta and became a war known as the Peloponnesian War in 431-404