Lysistrata of Aristophanes
Aristophanes was a satirist who produced Lysistrata around 413 BC when the news ofAthen's warships had been destroyed near Sicily. For twenty-one years, while Athens was engaged in war, he relentlessly and wittliy attacked the war, the ideals of the war, the war party and the war spirit. This risked his acceptance and his Athenian citizenship. Lysistrata is probably the oldest comedy which has retained a place in modern theatre. It primarily deals with two themes, war and the power of sexuality.. Lysistrata (an invented name meaning, She Who Puts an End to War) has summoned the women of Athens to meet her at the foot of Acropolis. She puts before them the easy invitation that they must never lie again with their husbands until the war is ended. At first, they shudder and withdraw and refuse until, with the help of the women from Sparta and Thebes, they are impelled to agree. The women seize the Acropolis from which Athens is funding the war. After days of sexually depriving their men in order to bring peace to there communities. They defeat back in an attack from the old men who had remained in Athens while the younger men are on their crusade. When their husbands retu
theory on the war. He chose the women of Athens and played with their role in Ancient Greece. women play very prominent roles. In fiction, one might see her as heroic, vivacious, splendid, and 415 BC convinced the Athenians to attack the Greek city-states on the island of Sicily and bring Sparta to consent to a peace treaty. Acropolis. The sex strike, portrayed in risque episodes, finally pressure the men of Athens and marriage at around the age of fourteen to a much older man. The purpose of marriage was to show the power lust and civil war amongst the Greeks.
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