Lysistrata (Classical Texts)

by Aristophanes (Author), Alan H . Sommerstein (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  1990

  $35.49

  Lysistrata is the third and last of Aristophanes' peace plays. It is a dream of peace, of how the women could help to achieve an honourable settlement, conceived when Athens was going through its blackest, most desperate crisis since the Persian War.

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $4.71

  From Nick Hern's series Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price, a translation from Patric Dickinson of Aristophanes' classic tale of a sex strike led by the women of Greece to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian Wars. Edited and introduced by Kenneth McLeish.

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  Paperback
  2005

  $19.83

  Frustrated at the ongoing violence of the civil war, Lysistrata decides that the women of Athens must take matters into their own hands. Against heartfelt resistance, she eventually persuades the female population that the only way to make peace is to stop making love: they will deny their husbands sex until a treaty has been signed.