Lysistrata persuades the women of the warring cities to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace-a strategy, however, that inflames the battle between the sexes. It is a comic account of a woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War between Greek city states by denying all the men of the land any sex, which was the only thing they truly and deeply desired. Lysistrata ( / l aɪ ˈ s ɪ s t r ə t ə/ or / ˌ l ɪ s ə ˈ s t r ɑː t ə/ Attic Greek: Λυσιστράτη, Lysistrátē, 'Army Disbander') is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC. Athenian citizens, Spartan envoys, slaves et al.īefore the Propylaea, or gateway to the Acropolis of Athens, 411 BC.
