Lysistrata

Aristophanes

Summary

"Lysistrata" by Aristophanes is an ancient Greek comedy first staged in 411 BCE. When the Peloponnesian War drags on endlessly, an Athenian woman named Lysistrata devises a bold plan: convince women from all warring Greek city-states to withhold sex from their husbands until peace is negotiated. Leading a rebellion that includes seizing the Acropolis and its treasury, Lysistrata sparks a battle between the sexes that tests whether desire or duty will prevail in this audacious comedy about war and power. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Subjects

• Aristophanes — Translations into English
• Comedy plays
• Greece — History — Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. — Drama
• Greek drama (Comedy) — Translations into English
• Lysistrata (Fictitious character) — Drama
• Peace movements — Drama
• Women and peace — Drama

Bookshelves

• Banned Books from Anne Haight's list
• Classics of Literature
• History - Ancient
• Humour
• Plays/Films/Dramas
• Classical Antiquity

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