The reader cannot help but smile when Lysistrata demands the women repeat the oath: "To husband or lover I"ll not open my thighs though he bring proof-of-love of monstrous size" (Lysistrata 260-264). ... "Lysistrata," demonstrates the depth of loathing for the war that was prevalent throughout Athens after the ruinous campaign to Sicily. ... Lysistrata's scheme to force the men of Greece to the peace table could never have been successful. ... "The audience is actively aware that roles are being shared, since one actor's performance (and not a particular character's) is being ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lysistrata is a woman with an extraordinary mission of ending the Peloponnesian War. ... Lysistrata convinces the women, and in agreement they seize the Akropolis, site of Athena's temple. What I enjoyed about this playwright overall is the main character Lysistrata herself. ... I do have to say that my initial reaction to Lysistrata is a somewhat confused one. ... As women were looked at as housewives, home-makes and sexual objects, Aristophanes creates a main character that breaks down those negative connotations towards women. ...

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A male character from Xenophon expresses that he taught his wide how to manage the household because: "What could she have known when I married her, since she wasn't fifteen years old when she came to me" (Scaife). ... Again from Xenophon, a male character explains gender roles: the wife is to stay indoors and nurse infants and make cloth, prepare food, supervise the indoor workers, budget household income and expenditures, see that ill slaves are tended, servants are trained (Scaife). A female character in Aristophanes' play, Lysistrata, by the name of Calonice once said,...

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