Word: peloponnesian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot of Lysistrata is one of those simple Greek stories that is hard to forget. The women of Athens and the other Greek city-states, disgusted with the unceasing Peloponnesian War, vow not to have sex with their husbands until the men make peace. In further protest, the women seize the Acropolis for the duration of the war. The original play is rude, even by modern standards, with men walking around with long phalluses and not-so-veiled references to sexual acts...
First it fell on Carl Yastrzemski. If we extend the Peloponnesian War metaphor, it's hard to deny that Yaz has forever been Achilles in Boston, sulking and slugging for 18 years, first through determination then idolatry. No one will ever doubt Yastrzemski's indispensibility on the baseball field, and no one was surprised when his adrenalin-powered shot found its way around the right field foul poll and into the seats for the game's first run in the second. And when Yaz popped to third for the final out of the game, myths may have been shattered about...
...hard. It is hard to turn the key and lock the door, hard to leave, probably forever, the little white stucco house in the Peloponnesian town of Argos. The little house was Niki Raffias' dowry when she married Theodosios twelve years ago, and the tears start to her eyes as she speaks of "the wonderful garden and the cage of canaries that sing all day. Now we must leave it all behind. But they tell me America is a nice place." Theodosios Kaffas is determined to make it so. A barber who had to go out of business, a restaurant...
...Aristophanes, it seems "bawdy" and "ribald" more than sophomoric and thin. There's nothing except sexual silliness to its plot about a smart Athenian woman, Lysistrata (Judith Listfield) who forms a league between all Greek women to force their husbands--by withholding sex from them--to end the Peloponnesian war. The Dunster production takes Lysistrata a little more lightly than it was intended (Aristophanes wrote it during the Peloponnesian war) but so long as you expect only a pretext for laughs, you won't be gravely disappointed...
...first recorded amnesty was granted by Athens in 403 B.C. to most of those who had collaborated with Athens' Spartan conquerors after the Peloponnesian War. (The word itself is from the Greek amnestia, which means "forgetfulness.") The Romans, on occasion, continued the custom, which they called restitutio in integrum, and many other states since then have granted amnesty to achieve reconciliation after a civil war or a period of internal strife. France, which has seen more such conflict than most countries, has made amnesty almost a habit; the latest example occurred in 1968 when right-wing opponents of Charles...