Wednesday, 19 November 2008

Lysistrata - "Greekness"

I find it amazing how much the Greek culture during Aritophanes' time differs from our American culture, especially when it comes to sexuality. Our version of Lysistrata that we've read during class has apparently been censored from a lot of this sexuality, it's more sexual than what we've read. I found it interesting that our society finds the need to censor books because of the amount of sex in them, especially when sex is a huge part of Greek society. By censoring this book, it's almost as if we're censoring the Greek culture, and I don't think that's fair. I don't like how we censor things simply because we think them to be taboo or "too different," whether it be the writings of Aristophanes and his ancient Greek culture or even modern texts. It just seems like we're doing a large injustice to the ancient Greek memory by censoring their work, because in the end, we're all people.

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