Answer & Explanation:Read Primary Source 1 – Aristophanes + Plutarch Then Complete Primary Source Worksheet (6 Questions)Write one or two paragraph for each questionMake sure you read questions carefully and answer completely
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Aristophanes: Chorus of The Women, from The Poet and the Women, c. 420 BCE
Aristophanes, c. 446 – c. 386 BCE, was a playwright and social commentator in Athens.
He wrote forty plays, of which eleven survive in nearly complete form. Considered the
greatest comic playwright of ancient Athens, his depictions of life in ancient Athens ore
compelling to both literary scholars and historians.
Come now, if we are an evil, why do you marry us, if indeed we are really an evil, and
forbid any of us either to go out, or to be caught peeping out, but wish to guard the evil
thing with so great diligence? And if the wife should go out anywhere, and you then
discover her to be out of doors, you rage with madness, who ought to offer libations
and rejoice, if indeed you really find the evil thing to be gone away from the house and
do not find it at home. And if we sleep in other peoples’ houses, when we play and
when we are tired, everyone searches for this evil thing, going round about the beds.
And if we peep out of a window, everyone seeks to get a sight of the evil thing. And if
we retire again, being ashamed, so much the more does everyone desire to see the evil
thing peep out again. So manifestly are we much better than you.
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Plutarch: Hipparete, Wife of Alkibiades, from Parallel Lives, c. late first, early second
century CE.
Plutarch (c. 46 – 120 CE) was a Greek writer and biographer. He is best known for his
work Parallel Lives, in which he compared the lives and moral character of famous
Greeks and Romans. Alkibiades, the subject of one of Plutarch’s biographies, was an
Athenian general and politician who lived in the 5th century BCE.
“Hipparete was a virtuous and dutiful wife, but at last growing impatient because of the
outrages done to her by her husband’s continual entertaining of hetaerae [courtesans],
strangers as well as Athenians, she departed from him and retired to her brother’s
house. Alkibiades seemed not at all concerned at this, and lived on still in the same
luxury; but the law required that she should deliver to the archon, in person, and not by
proxy, the instrument by which she claimed a divorce; and when, in obedience thereto,
she presented herself before the archon to perform this, Alkibiades came in, caught her
up, and carried her home through the market place, no one daring to oppose him or to
take her from him. She continued with him till her death, which happened not long
after, when Alkibiades had gone to Ephesos.”
Both translations into English from: Mitchell Carroll, Greek Women, (Philadelphia:
Rittenhouse Press, 1908)
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History 1, 3, 4, and 11
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Primary Source Document Analysis Worksheet
Primary source: __________________________________________________
1. Where and when was the document created? What is the main idea being
communicated by this document?
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2. Who was the author, and what is the author’s bias?
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3. What was going on in the region when this was written? What was the context?
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4. Who was the intended audience?
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5. Can you link the primary source to other things you’ve learned about?
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6. How might this source add to our understanding of history?
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