Is Lysistrata Female

Lysistrata is an Athenian woman who is sick and tired of war and the treatment of women in Athens. Lysistrata gathers the women of Sparta and Athens together to solve these social ills and finds success and power in her quest.

How long ago was Lysistrata written?

Lysistrata was written in 411 BCE – twenty years after the beginning of the Peloponnesian War and ten years before its end. It is clear that Aristophanes advocated peace for Athens.

Was Lysistrata real?

Share: In Aristophanes’ comic play Lysistrata (originally performed in Greece about 411 BC, but still shown regularly to this day), a group of women famously withhold sex from their husbands in an effort to end the Peloponnesian War.

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