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Aristophanes' Lysistrata

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Aristophanes' Lysistrata
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eng
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Literary Form
fiction
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Aristophanes' Lysistrata
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electronic resource
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Summary
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
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