Discuss how the spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes celebratory,and revenge within royal families.

1. Read one of these final 5 choices: Aristophanes, Lysistrata (you must find your own version online), Euripides, Medea, (see text) W. Shakespeare, “Troilus and Cressida” (you must find your own version online) Hesiod, The Theogony and Works and Days (see text), or Aeschylus, The Oresteria (see text)2. Write a 2 page MLA Essay, include at least 1 source3. Topic – Connect a theme or motif, from the genre (poem/play/essay) you read to some current event.If you can use allusion, allegory, illustration or analogy to connect the two, even better.Consider one or more of these themes/ideas;caricature fools contrasting group strength (like women),how/why cunning and cleverness rise and fall,the outcome of pride or prejudice,the seeds sewn by exile and banishment, the farce and fallacy of practicing rightness and inevitability in the current state of affairs,order versus chaos,rural/colloquial/rustic wisdom and humor,movement from primitive ritual to civilized institutions,how the spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes celebratory,and revenge within royal families