![]() One of the few surviving examples of Old Comedy, the dramatic structure employed in Lysistrata represents a departure from conventions that organize Aristophanes' earlier plays. ![]() The play is notable for being an early exposé of sexual politics in a male-dominated society. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual gratification from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace - a strategy that, consequently, inflames the battle between the sexes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War. ![]() Lysistrata (literally: "Army-disbander") is one of eleven surviving plays written by Aristophanes. ![]()
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