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Lysistrata

Aristophanes author Ranjit Bolt editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:15th Dec '05

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Frustrated at the ongoing violence of the civil war, Lysistrata decides that the women of Athens must take matters into their own hands. Against heartfelt resistance, she eventually persuades the female population that the only way to make peace is to stop making love: they will deny their husbands sex until a treaty has been signed.Lysistrata, frustrated at the ongoing violence of the civil war, convinces the women of Athens to deny their husbands sex, until a treaty for peace has been signed. Aristophanes is astonishingly ahead of his time in this, probably his greatest and most enduring comedy.

ISBN: 9781840026450

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62 pages