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Old 07-07-2014, 05:23 PM   #20142
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"Lysistrata" is a wonderful play. We studied the original Greek version of it on my Greek course. If anyone's unfamiliar with it, it's about a woman in ancient Athens during the Peloponnesian War who organises a campaign among all the woman of the city to withhold their sexual favours from their husbands until they end the war. Very, very funny indeed.
And the women show surprising strength and cunning considering the era in which the play was written. I would go so far as to call Aristophanes an early feminist. The character of Lysistrata is certainly no shrinking violet.
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