âUntil the mucoid plaque begins to mix with fecal matter, its color and texture may appear similar to healthy bowel mucosa,â he says (Anderson 66; 88). In his book, Richard Anderson cites numerous conventional scientific sources referring to intestinal mucus and claims they support his assertion (Anderson 59).
1 Its protagonist, Trygaeus, emerges as the improbable champion of universal peace (Lysistrata's role 10 years later). 2  The Peace of Nicias was formalised this same year, ending the first half of the Peloponnesian War (referred to in Lysistrata as The Former War).ome events that are significant for our understanding of the play: 1  424 BC: The Knights won first prize at the Lenaia. 2  Its protagonist, a sausage-seller named Agoracritus, emerges at the end of the play as the improbable saviour of Athens (Lysistrata is its saviour thirteen years later).
Simonides-King of Pentapolis, father of Thaisa. Pericles is shipwrecked in Pentapolis, and wins a jousting contest for the hand of Simonides's daughter, Thaisa. Simonides is impressed with Pericles, and tries to jolt him out of his melancholy by offering to be his friend.elicanus-One of Pericles's advisors in Tyre, Helicanus takes care of Pericles in his melancholy moods, and recommends he leave Tyre for a while after the events in Antioch.