Lysistrata - Greek Plays (1/2)

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Enjoy an extract from Aristophanes's comic account of one woman's method of ending The Peloponnesian War.

(Part 1 of 2)

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[NShll-sdyw]

Using men's horniness as a weapon against them is perhaps the most genuis idea ever!

[andrealupercio]

This helped visualize my readings. Thanks you

[melrodas]

I would think that sex deprived men would be more aggressive. Thoughts?

[AMomentousMori]

Haha I love how the sex starved men's garments were... "elevated" :))

[Suph]

Lol I will not think of "world peace" the same again

[tarico]

(Part 1 of 2.) So I had heard so much about Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex" (published in 1947, very advanced Feminist ideas for its time, etc.), that I finally borrowed a copy from a friend. She mentions a play that I had read just a few years earlier, Lysistrata, says it's "...a lighthearted comedy...". (Continued...)

[MothMizzle]

I notice this summary completely ignores this part: "The debate or agon is continued between the Chorus of Old Men and the Chorus of Old Women until Lysistrata returns to the stage with some news—her comrades are desperate for sex and they are beginning to desert on the silliest pretexts (for example, one woman says she has to go home to air her fabrics by spreading them on the bed). After rallying her comrades and restoring their discipline, Lysistrata again returns to the Acropolis to continue waiting for the men's surrender."

[SillyGoose]

Big deal. Women have been going on a sex strike on me forever

[sagbch]

What was the name given to the Magistrate, Aprobulos? What does that mean?

[pixel]

Their men must have been pretty civilized under it all. Otherwise, they would have taken what they wanted.

[tarico]

(Part 2 of 2.) Anyway, I go to the index (of "The Second Sex"), look for other refers to this play, find 'em, and again she never mentions anything at all about women withholding sex from soldiers/cops and how that could end war. Figured if the rest of "The Second Sex" is similarly dishonest, I'm not missing out on much by having it be yet another book that I cracked, but deemed unworthy to finish.