Monday, March 15, 2021

Aristophanes, Lysistrata


 

Lysistrata talks to Calonice saying that the women of Greece should end the war.

What can we do? Asks Calonice.

Lysistrata has called other women for a meeting.

Myrrhine arrives late.

Lysistrata persuades the women to give up sex in order to have peace and they make a oath.

She reveals the old women are capturing the Acropolis, where the city treasure is stored.

The old men go to the Acropolis with fire to burn the old women, but the old woman were prepared with jugs of water and wet them all.

The young women and old woman manage to stop the men at the Acropolis. 

The men ask for the reason they are doing this.

Lysistrata says they are blocking the money so they won't have anymore to pay for the war.

Discussion between men and women.

One by one, women start to create reasons to go home and "rub the flax", etc. Lysistrata says they shouldn't go. 

Some even pretended to be pregnant about to give birth.

One husband come and is teased by his wife and has no sex.

Ambassadors of Athens and Sparta come to make a deal, all "hard on".

The Athenians and Spartans agree with each other and peace is made.