Lysistrata

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Lysistrata is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes. It is a comic account of a woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War between Greek city states by denying all the men of the land any sex, which was the only thing they truly and deeply desired. Lysistrata persuades the women of the warring cities to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace—a strategy, however, that inflames the battle between the sexes.;"A group of women disenfranchised politically, socially, and economically who rise up and put an end to the Peloponnesian War that has ravaged Greece for 20 years."

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411 BCE
Ancient Greek
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