Admetus he is about to die but he s good friends with Apollo and Apollo tells him if he can find someone to die for him he will spare his life He gets his wife to die for him but she asks him to not marry anyone else because she doesn t want her child to have an evil stepmother He promises to never marry again and she dies Hercules found out what happened and went to the underworld to get Alcestis back and he plays a trick on Admetus saying that he found her on the battleground and asks if both of them can stay at his house for the night reluctantly he said yes he didn t know who the woman was because she had a veil covering her face Hercules told him to lift the veil like a marriage and when he did he saw that it was his wife Aeschylus son of Euphorion born around 512 BCE lived through the great Persian wars his brother was killed in action wrote more than 70 plays of which 7 have survived he presented the Oresteia in 458 BCE died in Sicily in 455 BCE Agamemnon he accidentally killed artemis deer and she wouldn t allow him to go to troy unless he killed his daughter Iphigenia So he sacrificed her because he wanted to go to Troy to help his brother Menelaus find his wife Helen who was kidnapped When he returned to klymnestra she killed him because he killed their daughter and she fell in love with aegisthus Agathon he was made fun of in the thesmophoriasouzai because he wore women s clothes and that was were Euripides took his kinsman to find women s clothes The kinsman couldn t tell that agathon was really a man because he dresses like a woman and is feminine He says he sides with women because he s spent so much time in their clothes so he knows how they feel and think Alcestis her husband is about to die and she agrees to die for him because she thinks that men are more worthy than women She asks him not to marry another woman because she doesn t want her child to have an evil stepmother Hercules found out what happened and went to the underworld to get Alcestis back and he plays a trick on Admetus saying that he found her on the battleground and asks if both of them can stay at his house for the night reluctantly he said yes he didn t know who the woman was because she had a veil covering her face Hercules told him to lift the veil like a marriage and when he did he saw that it was his wife Alcman a Spartan poet who wrote about a chorus of girls and their roles in a certain ritual that might be about some transition either into marriage a debutante party or some type of competition He also talks about their homoerotic behavior with each other Antigone she sneaks out and buries her brother who was a trader to the city she did this to show honor to her family She is more interested in death than life because everyone is together in death but she still wants to live because she was in love with Haemon She is a woman outsider because she plays more of a male role she does what she wants and she doesn t listen to men She gets caught burying her brother and Creon locks her away buried alive She hangs herself before Creon can get back to let her out Aristophanes wrote the Lysistrata it was a comedic play in which gender roles were reversed It took place when Athens was at war with Sparta and Athens was losing The lysistrata went to Spartan women and Athenian women and had them agree to go on a sex strike After the older women took over Acropolis and the temple of Athena where all of Athen s money is stored They wont let the men use the money for war anymore because they are losing so much money and their economy is falling A Spartan ambassador came to Athens with a naked woman called Reconciliation Together both of the cities mapped out what land would belong to whom They made a treaty and both places are happy This went to show that treaties and peace should always be an option Aristotle he is the father of science and was apupil of plato He believed that oikos was the basic building block of society so what happens in the house should be an analogue of how society works He thought that men naturally rule women children and slaves he suggested that plato s republic will fall apart because if its not yours then you wont care about it thinks since men are together all the time women just drink because they have no self control Athena daughter of Zues no birth mother so was biased in the trial where she let Orestes free of charges for killing his mom she never had a mom so did not sympathize the furies were mad that there was going to be a trial but she calmed them down by suggesting they become guards She was the judge in Eumenides From the Oresteia readings Creon he became king to keep the state functioning He sees Antigone as a political problem You re not a great leader so I ll do whatever I want He locks up Antigone for giving her brother a proper burial even though he betrayed his city After he locked her up he went to give the brother a proper burial and then let Antigone out but by the time he got there she hanged herself Afterward Haemon his son hanged himself because he was in love with her and Creon s wife killed herself because her son killed himself curse tablets a lot of people believed in magic and if they didn t like you then they would put a curse on your tombstone when you died to make sure that you had a bad afterlife and the rest of the people that were connected to you were cursed Demeter mother of Persephone she s the goddess of fertility They praise her in the eleusian because she is the goddess of fertility and they recreate her to have a better afterlife Women sit on willows and mourn for their daughters like she mourned for persephone Eleusis Persephone they had many statues and places to honor both goddesses During the Eleusian women would purify themselves with a piglet and then sacrifice the piglet to Persephone and then they would drink kykeon in honor of Demeter They would recreate Demeter and Persephone so that they a city near Athens that had practices to Demeter and could all have a better afterlife During part of the ritual in the winter the women sit inside and say obscene words and priestesses tell secrets The men sit outside and are only allowed to talk about agriculture Euripides women don t like him because he makes fun of them a lot and …