![]() ![]() ![]() In this respect, the play enters the political discourse and becomes as influential as the speeches and rhetoric of the politicians themselves. Greek plays are not just about entertainment they are invitations to the audience to discuss political events. Linking the desire for sex and war, this is one of the earliest articulations of the role of sex in a male-dominated (which is to say patriarchal) society. In a style that breaks from the previous comedic play of Aristophanes, this play is a comedy with deep socio-political resonance. Led by Lysistrata, whose name means “Army Disbander,” the women of various cities, including Sparta and Thebes, withhold sex from the men in order to bring the war to a close. Originally performed in Athens in 411 BCE, Aristophanes’s play, Lysistrata, tells of the bold efforts of women to end the Peloponnesian War. ![]()
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