Guerra e Paz em três comédias de Aristófanes

os Acarnenses, a paz e Lisístrata

Abstract

The analysis of tree comedies by Aristophanes (circa 450-388 B.C.) gives rise to the discussion, in a historical point of vie, of the recurring question placed by the dialetic between the particular e the universal. Focusing on the theme of War and Peace (as seen by the Greek comic poet, inspired by the Pelopponesian War), as wewll as establishing the role of comedy as an instrument of social criticism and outlining the political-cultural and socioeconomin picture found in Greece in the time of Aristophanes, we attest that Aristophanic works contain elements that break away from the spatiotemporal framework of the satirized facts, transforming them into themes of a universal character. Thus, by dealing with concrete situations found in Athens in the 5th Century B.C., the author leads us to contemplate ideas, feelings, emotions and prime movers present all along the history of manking.