Women Rule The World

Lysistrata is one of the few surviving plays written by

the master of Old Comedy, Aristophanes. 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 convinces the women

of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their

husbands 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 its exposé

of sexual relations in a male-dominated society and for

its use of both double entendre and explicit obscenities.

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