In place of the Peloponnesian War, the film draws our attention to the crisis in the South Side of Chicago that is claiming more lives of Americans than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This paper is a counterpart to the paper, “Lysistrata(s): Aristophanes to Spike Lee,” and a sample from a module of the forthcoming Io Project, an online resource for Classics in Africa and the African Diaspora.ġ§1 Spike Lee’s film Chi-Raq (2015), co-written with Kevin Willmott, reimagines Aristophanes’ Lysistrata to address gang-related gun violence in urban America. “Spike Lee’s Didactic Lens of Aristophanes.” CHS Research Bulletin 4, no.
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