Eros e paz nas comédias de Aristófanes

Abstract

Aristophanes links Eros to peace in his comedies. In Acharnians, 425 BC, Dikaeopolis, an Athenian citizen, obtains private truce with the Spartans for himself and his family. He does not share his peace with anyone else, except with a bride, because she is a woman and not is blamed for the war. It will have part of the fiance in their wedding. In Peace, 421 BC, Trigeu a grape-gatherer solves fly in a scarab beetle, who eats feces, to speak to the gods for peace, and ends up rescuing the Eirene goddess (Peace), contained in a cave by Polemos (War). Peace brings the goddess Opora (Autumnal or Harvest), with whom the protagonist marries, and the goddess Theoria (Feast), which is given to prytanes in the theater itself. In Lysistrata, in 411 BC, the women of Greece under the leadership of the Athenian Lysistrata make a sex strike to force their husbands to end up the war. The Myrrhine character and her husband, Kinesias, demonstrate how is the seduction and the refusal of women compared to men. We propose to link Eros to peace in the three pieces presented and Thesmoforiazusai (Demeterkoreazusai), the same year of Lysistrata and very close to it in some important ways, such as bringing a female choir, performing the separation of couples, making the apology of women and promote peace, because it is a religious festival of fertility, the Thesmophoria, parties in honor of the goddesses Demeter and Kore.