“The reason for its enduring appeal is simple: sex and politics. Angry at being ignored in matters of state and tired of missing their husbands, the women of Athens-led by Lysistrata-refuse to have sex with their men until they put down their weapons. In the twenty-first year of the Peloponnesian War, desperate times call for desperate measures. It is the third and concluding play in Aristophanes’s War and Peace series and portrays a humorous battle of the sexes.
Considered the Greek playwright’s greatest work: “A bawdy antiwar comedy one woman’s extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War” (Classical Literature).įirst presented in 411 BC, Lysistrata is one of the great works from the classical age of drama.
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