Lysistrata was written twenty-one years into the Peloponnesian War. Although the play is light-hearted, it was written out of the writer's grief over the thousand of men who died in the terrible defeat that the Athenians suffered in Syracuse.

The play begins in a public square in Athens. There Lysistrata awaits the other women to explain to them the details of her plan to bring peace in Greece. At the time Athens was at war with Sparta and other cities. Most of the men where at

This play is a timeless classic and it survived thousands of years and it can still fit in our lives today. To me that is amazing.

war, a lot of them died, and the rest would come back only to relax for a few days enjoy the pleasure of their wives and go back to war. To Lysistrata that was unacceptable, so she gathered the women from Athens, Sparta and the rest of the cities that were at war and made them take an oath that they will not sleep with their husbands until peace was made and the war would be finally over. The other women were against it at the beginning, but soon they realized that a sex strike was the only thing that they could use to convince their husbands to make peace. At the same time that the meeting was going on the elderly women of Athens took over Acropolis. Acropolis then became their fortress, all the women g

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