
Lysistrata: the sex strike
by Aristophanes
Title:
Lysistrata: the sex strike
Author:
Aristophanes
Edited by:
Germaine Greer
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
104 pages
Publisher:
Aurora Metro Publications Ltd
ISBN-13:
9780953675708
EAN:
9780953675708
Classifications:
Plays, playscripts
Weight (g):
248
Dimensions (mm):
199 x 131 x 7
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
A feminist retelling of the classic Greek satire adapted by leading feminist Germaine Greer. The ancient world is gripped by a long and futile war. While the men of Athens fight in a foreign land, the women of Athens can take no more. Lysistrata, the play's heroine, persuades the women to barricade themselves inside a building and refuse to give their husbands sex until they negotiate an end to the Peloponnesian War and secure peace. She also persuades the women of Sparta, the enemy, to join her cause and refuse sex to their husbands until they too agree to stop the war. The men eventually give in, peace is agreed and the women go home to their husbands.




















