Lysistrata Author:Aristophanes

This is the third play in Aristophane's War and Peace series
Written circa 411 BC
Translated and with Notes by Jack Lindsay
A comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece 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. The play is notable for being an early exposé of sexual relations in a male-dominated society.