Ebook
Lysistrata
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Lysistrata
- Author
- Aristophanes
- Series
- Greek Comedy
- Language
- English
- Length
- 86 pages
- ISBN
- 9781911535805
- Published
- 25 October 2016
- Imprint
- Sovereign
- Aristophanes
- Greek
- Athens
- comic
- comedy
- humour
- humorous
- play
- Greece
- mythology
Description
Lysistrata is a comedy originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC. A comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace—a strategy, however, that inflames the battle between the sexes. The play is notable for being an early exposé of sexual relations in a male-dominated society.