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	SparkNotes: Lysistrata: Summary
		Lysistrata argues that the War is a concern for women especially and she adds her two cents as to how the city should be run, drawing an elaborate analogy to show that Athens should be structured as a woman would spin wool.
		Lysistrata tells the Commissioner that war is a concern of women because women have sacrificed greatly for it—women have given their husbands and their sons to the effort.
		Lysistrata reasons that because both Athens and Sparta are of a common heritage and because they have previously helped one another and owe a debt to one another, the two sides should not be fighting.
	www.sparknotes.com /drama/lysistrata/summary.html (0 words)

	Lysistrata
		They meet in solemn conclave, and Lysistrata expounds her scheme, the rigorous application to husbands and lovers of a self-denying ordinance--"we must refrain from the male altogether." Every wife and mistress is to refuse all sexual favours whatsoever, till the men have come to terms of peace.
		In cases where the women must yield 'par force majeure,' then it is to be with an ill grace and in such a way as to afford the minimum of gratification to their partner; they are to be passive and take no more part in the amorous game than they are absolutely obliged to.
		Before long the device of the bold Lysistrata proves entirely effective, Peace is concluded, and the play ends with the hilarious festivities of the Athenian and Spartan plenipotentiaries in celebration of the event.
	www.theatredatabase.com /ancient/aristophanes_005.html (0 words)

	Lysistrata, or The Nude Goddess, Mark Adamo
		Lysistrata, Kleonike, Myrrhine: these are less persons than personae, masks of text through which their play-wright declaims an impassioned political broadside.
		Lysistrata, or the Nude Goddess was originally scheduled for premiere at Houston Grand Opera in March 2002.
		Adamo works hard on their behalf; Lysistrata's long Act II aria of farewell is beautifully managed, good to Emily Pulley's equally well managed soprano voice and deeply sincere....We should be grateful that Lysistrata made it onstage.
	www.schirmer.com /default.aspx?TabId=2420&State_2874=2&WorkId_2874=23698 (0 words)

	Past Productions: Lysistrata
		Lysistrata has the solution - she unites the women of Athens in a general sex strike to force the soldiers to come to their senses.
		Lysistrata is a co-production with the Prince Music Theater of Philadelphia.
		Lysistrata's plan works with remarkable speed, and soon all Greek manhood had fallen on hard times.
	www.amrep.org /lysistrata (0 words)

	EAWC Anthology: Lysistrata
		Lysistrata: Yet, look you, when the women are summoned to meet for a matter of the greatest importance, they lie in bed instead of coming.
		Lysistrata: Then yield to their wishes, but with a bad grace; there is no pleasure in it for them, when they do it by force.
		Lysistrata: When we are winding thread, and it is tangled, we pass the spool across and through the skein, now this way, now that way; even so, to finish of the war, we shall send embassies hither and thither and everywhere, to disentangle matters.
	eawc.evansville.edu /anthology/lysistrata.htm (0 words)

	LYSISTRATA and Old Comedy
		This problem may be an imaginary creation of the playwright or a contemporary problem actually facing the Athenian audience (as in Lysistrata’s desire to end the Peloponnesian War).
		Although Lysistrata is frequently performed as an anti-war play, to define Aristophanes as a pacifist based on his opposition to the Peloponnesian war would be an error.
		Clearly, Aristophanes’ Lysistrata concerns itself with an issue of pressing concern to the population of Athens, and Aristophanes is willing to criticize both sides in the conflict.
	www.indiana.edu /~thtr/2002/lysistrata/old_comedy.html (0 words)

	Lysistrata Guide
		Note in the first scene how difficult Lysistrata finds it to interest other women in her plan.
		The name of the play's heroine, Lysistrata, means "releaser of war," which typifies the Aristophanic tendency for an "outsider" hero whose indicates his or her function.
		Interestingly, there was an important priestess in Athens at that time whose name, Lysimache, meant "releaser of the battle." However, it is impossible to say this significance of this possible coincidence.
	www.temple.edu /classics/lysistrata.html (0 words)

	Aristophanes' Lysistrata
		The setting of the Lysistrata requires at least one door in the skene representing the Propylaea, the monumental gateway to the Athenian Acropolis.
		An unusual aspect of the production of the Lysistrata is the use of two choruses, one of old men and the other of old women.
		The Lysistrata is set in the same year in which it was performed (411 B.C.).
	depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /classics/dunkle/studyguide/lysistra.htm (789 words)

	Lysistrata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lysistrata (Attic: Λυσιστράτη, Doric: Λυσιστράτα), Aristophanes' anti-war comedy, written in 411 BC, has female characters, led by the eponymous Lysistrata, barricading the public funds building and withholding sex from their husbands to secure peace and end the Peloponnesian War.
		A real-life version of Lysistrata took place in the town of Pereira, Colombia, in September 2006 when a group of gangsters' wives and girlfriends declared a sex strike to force their partners to participate in a disarmament program (Daily Telegraph story).
		Lysistrata, anonymous translator rumored to be Oscar Wilde; published in 1912 by the Athenian Society, London.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lysistrata (794 words)

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		Lysistrata tells the story of women from opposing states who unite to end a war by refusing to sleep with their husbands until the men agree to lay down their swords.
		Lysistrata believes the war is being mishandled and prolonged because of the stubbornness of the men.
		Lysistrata tells her neighbor that the safety of all of Greece lies with the actions of the women of Greece.
	www.lycos.com /info/lysistrata--women.html (504 words)

	Lysistrata and The First Wive’s Club (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When the women hear her plan, Lysistrata is met with opposition; most of the women don’t want to deny the pleasure of sex.
		Lysistrata tries to convince them that if they refuse their husbands on the occasional times they come home, that they will want to end the war sooner in order to get back to their wives.
		Lysistrata’s plot is outwardly seen as a women’s rebellion against the Peloponnesian War, its deeper meaning is that of the war between the sexes.
	www.ripon.edu /Academics/Theatre/THE231/HalenE/Women/Lysistrata.htm (508 words)

	Free Lysistrata Essays
		The Lysistrata of Aristophanes Aristophanes was a satirist who produced Lysistrata around 413 BC when the news of Athen’s warships had been destroyed near Sicily.
		Lysistrata - Aristophanes play Lysistrata takes place during the Peloponnesian War and the women of Greece are tired of their men being at war.
		Lysistrata - Amidst the tone of war around us, and speak of possible defeat, the festival of Dionysos will be held the fall of this great year, 411 BCE.
	www.123helpme.com /search.asp?text=Lysistrata (832 words)

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		One woman, Lysistrata, was so fed up with the fighting that she called all of the women of Greece to a meeting.
		Lysistrata Aristophanes was a comedy poet in the fourth century B.C. during the time of the Peloponnesian War.
		Lysistrata is a hilarious play about Athenian women who team up with the women of Sparta and Thebes to force the men to make peace.
	www.lycos.com /info/lysistrata--lysistrata-aristophanes.html (565 words)

	Aristophanes' Lysistrata: Sex Strike - Never Happen
		Lysistrata’s scheme to force the men of Greece to the peace table could never have been successful.
		These restrictions were designed primarily to limit a wife or daughter’s contact with men outside her family and served men’s goal of avoiding uncertainty about the paternity of children, however they did allow women friends and relatives to socialize freely in each other’s homes.
		Though the primary motivation for the women of Lysistrata to end the war is the return of their husbands to their beds, it is apparent that the men have been neglecting their duties for some time.
	www.pillowrock.com /ronnie/lysistrata.htm (843 words)

	AlterNet: Make Love, Not War – Or Else
		Lysistrata encourages women from opposing sides of a civil war to withhold sex from their husbands until the men, conquered by unrequited lust, agree to ratify a peace treaty.
		Lysistrata herself is a literary heroine who translates remarkably well to the modern era, considering she was created during the Peloponnesian War.
		Not only do Lysistrata and the Greek women in the play withhold sex – effectively spearheading a 2,500-year-old tradition of peaceful resistance to war – they take over the Acropolis (the city treasury), barring the men access to those other precious chests – their war chests.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=15258 (832 words)

	Lysistrata is spring theatrical production
		In ancient Athens, the women of all countries, led by Lysistrata, scheme to bring peace and negotiate a treaty.
		Their proposition is simple but effective: until men stop making war, women everywhere will refuse to make love to their husbands.
		Lysistrata will be performed in Marquette Theatre March 20, 25, 26, and 27 at 8 p.m.
	www.loyno.edu /newsandcalendars/loyolatoday/2004/03/lysistrata.html (217 words)

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		Lysistrata is about women seizing power and withholding sex in order to stop a war.
		In March 2003, the cast of Lysistrata performed across from the United Nations headquarters to protest the impending invasion of Iraq.
		Lysistrata's success in lobbying for peace was remembered at Monday's opening ceremony of the International Conference on Women Defending Peace (ICWDP) at the headquarters of the International Labour Organisation.
	lycoszone.lycos.com /info/lysistrata.html (396 words)

	Lysistrata: A look at the character (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lysistrata is one of the most popular Ancient Greek comedies by the author Aristophanes.
		Lysistrata is a woman who examines the world around her.
		On the other hand Lysistrata is also trying to re-establish Patriarchy by bringing the males into the home, and eventually conceeding any gains they may have achieved during the story.
	www.funkymunkyz.com /lysistrata (311 words)

	Lysistrata
		Lysistrata, written by Aristophanes, is an example of what is known as Old Attic Comedy.
		At several places in the play, Lysistrata and the women boast of their credentials; in the episode on pp.
		Film retelling of Lysistrata who convinced the women they could prevent war by withholding sexual favors from their husbands.
	www.willamette.edu /cla/wviews/athens/lysistrata.htm (663 words)

	Amazon.com: Lysistrata (Signet Classics): Books: Aristophanes,Douglas Parker (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lysistrata is perhaps my favorite of the Greek plays-it's never pompous or overbearing, and it never overwhelms itself with flowery prose.
		Lysistrata is an intelligent Athenian woman who is sick and tired of the Greek city-states warring against each other.
		Lysistrata was one of the first plays the class read, and it, the oldest play we read, provided the room of twenty-somethings with our biggest belly-laugh of the semester.
	www.amazon.com /Lysistrata-Signet-Classics-Aristophanes/dp/0451527895 (1693 words)

	Aristophanes' Lysistrata, a CurtainUp review
		Meanwhile, the articulate Lysistrata debates with the Probulous, one of the dictators who control the city under a kind of War Powers Act.
		Elise Stone does an excellent job in her extensive and complex role as Lysistrata, one of the longest speaking parts for women in the classical repertoire.
		Lysistrata is an excellent example of how great comedy transcends suffering and death by challenging assumptions and refusing to accept the status quo.
	www.curtainup.com /lysistrata.html (1105 words)

	Lysistrata By Aristophanes
		It portrays Athenian Lysistrata and the women of Athens teaming up with the women of Sparta to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian War.
		According to Lysistrata it is easier to untangle multinational politics, stop wars and fighting than the women's work of sorting out wool.
		Lysistrata was schooled in the traditional fashion, by learning from older men.
	www.studyworld.com /basementpapers/papers/stack32_11.html (1166 words)

	Lysistrata E-book by Aristophanes
		One is busy pottering about her husband; another is getting the servant up; a third is putting her child asleep or washing the brat or feeding it.
		- LYSISTRATA When we are winding thread, and it is tangled, we pass the spool across and through the skein, now this way, now that way; even so, to finish off the war, we shall send embassies hither and thither and everywhere, to disentangle matters.
		Better call Lysistrata, then; she is the only person who will bring us to terms.
	www.19.5degs.com /ebook/lysistrata/930/read (12255 words)

	EAWC Anthology: Lysistrata
		Lysistrata: When we are winding thread, and it is tangled, we pass the spool across and through the skein, now this way, now that way; even so, to finish of the war, we shall send embassies hither and thither and everywhere, to disentangle matters.
		Lysistrata: First we wash the yarn to separate the grease and filth; do the same with all bad citizens, sort them out and drive them forth with rods-they're the refuse of the city.
		Lysistrata: Then secondly, instead of enjoying the pleasures of love and making the best of our youth and beauty, we are left to languish far from our husbands, who are all with the army.
	www.utc.edu /Faculty/Anthony-Steinhoff/103/Lysistrata.html (2247 words)

	Aristophanes' Lysistrata
		The setting of the Lysistrata requires at least one door in the skene representing the Propylaea, the monumental gateway to the Athenian Acropolis.
		An unusual aspect of the production of the Lysistrata is the use of two choruses, one of old men and the other of old women.
		The Lysistrata is set in the same year in which it was performed (411 B.C.).
	www.ablemedia.com /ctcweb/netshots/lysistra.htm (768 words)

	The Lysistrata Project, Theater Artists Against War, Anti-War, Stop the War on Iraq, Sharron Bower, Kathy Blume
		The Lysistrata Project, Theater Artists Against War, Anti-War, Stop the War on Iraq, Sharron Bower, Kathy Blume
		A new musical adaptation of Lysistrata, produced by Lysistrata Project Co-Founder Sharron Bower -- currently in development.
		They are an ongoing peace organization for women, whereas this Lysistrata Project was a one-time world-wide theatrical peace event on 03-03-03.
	www.lysistrataproject.com (148 words)

	Lysistrata, by Aristphanes, Adapted by Edward Einhorn (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The humor in LYSISTRATA is the focus of this latest adaptation.
		And so it should be since Lysistrata is after all a comedy.
		"Overall, Lysistrata 100, is an enjoyable erotic production with a brilliant sound design/composition by William Niederkorn and sensational directing/writing by Edward Einhorn who has made the leap from his children's theater off-Broadway production of Fairy Tales of The Absurd, to the orgiastic rituals of ancient Greece, with unsettling ease.
	www.untitledtheater.com /LysistrataBook.htm (249 words)

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