Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Lysistrata by Aristophanes is a classical play about a woman named Lysistrata in Greece. She gathers women from all over Greece, on every side of the war, for a meeting during the Peloponnesian War. They are all tired of the war and want it to end. Lysistrata suggests that they all refuse to have sex with their husbands in order to gain peace throughout Greece. She is not sure how this will go over because it appears that she believes most women are weak. She may believe this simply because the women of Greece put up with their husbands and everytihng that they do. Lysistrata is an exception to this. At first, the women refuse and they cannot imagine anything worse. Calonicé says, “anything, anything but that! Bid me go through fire, if you will; but to rob us of the sweetest thing in the world, dear, dear Lysistrata.” Eventually they agree and all take an oath to abstain from sex with their h...