Lysistrata

Aristophanes' riotous anti-war comedy, in which the women of Greece stage a sex strike to force their husbands to lay down arms.

At a glance Bawdy, sharp, and startlingly modern, it remains the ancient world's boldest satire on… On a street in Athens, a woman gathers her sisters from every warring city and proposes… With that, Aristophanes launches one of the oldest and rowdiest comedies to survive from… What it's about Weary of a conflict that keeps swallowing their husbands and sons, the…

Weary of a conflict that keeps swallowing their husbands and sons, the women of the Greek cities agree to withhold all intimacy until the men negotiate peace.