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Λυσιστράτη (Lysistrata)

by Ἀριστοφάνης Aristophanes

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  • Peloponnesian War

Aristophanes wrote the comedy during the Peloponnesian War: the women of Athens and Sparta go on a sex strike to force the men to make peace.

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Λυσιστράτη (Lysistrata)

Lysistrata is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, first staged in early 411 BCE at Lenaea festival in classical Athens. The play is a comic account of a woman's – Lysistrata's – mission to end the Peloponnesian War between Greek city states by denying sex from all the men of warring parties and occupying the Acropolis of Athens. Lysistrata persuades the women of the warring cities to engage in a sex strike as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace – a strategy that inflames the battle between the sexes.