The Iliad speaks about a few characters that were so overwhelmed with rage that nothing else mattered to them. ... We also see this prideful behavior on the part of the men in Aristophanes Lysistrata. ... As Lysistrata says, "War is men's business". ... (pg 9) The machismo and arete in Lysistrata is proven when the magistrate says to Lysistrata, "May I die a thousand deaths ere to obey one who wears a veil!" ... In Aristophanes Lysistrata, Lysistrata ends the war between the men by her own means, and that was to hold out on them. ...

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