The set-up of course makes for a lot of sexual banter, pitting women against men in an amusing, sex-centered battle of the sexes. The story is simple, and plays out quite straightforwardly to its happy end. The older women are assigned that part: while we're working out our agreement down here, they'll occupy the Acropolis, pretending to be up there for a sacrifice. No, that's also been provided for: we're going to occupy the Acropolis this very day.
Lysistrata's plan is actually twofold: besides refusing men sex, they blockade access to the treasury of Athena, at the Acropolis, denying the Athenians the funds they need to pay for the war.Īs Lysistrata explains, it is a two-pronged attack (or rather, defense): She proposes that all women deny their menfolk sex, certain that that will bring them quickly to their knees and senses - as it then does. We're going to have to give up - the prick", in Jeffrey Henderson's translation. The plot of Lysistrata is surely among the most famous original ones (rather than myth-based, as most are) found in the classical Greek plays that have come down to us, Lysistrata convincing the women of Athens and Sparta that they must take drastic measures to bring the ongoing warring to an end: ἀφεκτέα τοίνυν ἐστὶν ἡμῖν τοῦ πέους.
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