num_pages: 62
description: Lysistrata, frustrated at the ongoing violence of the civil war, convinces the women of Athens to deny their husbands sex, until a treaty for peace has been signed. Aristophanes is astonishingly ahead of his time in this, probably his greatest and most enduring comedy.
language: English
title: Lysistrata
titlecomplete: Lysistrata (Oberon Classics)
characters: Lysistrata
genres: Literature, Classics, Feminism, School, Drama, Plays, Comedy, Fiction, Humor, Theatre
ratings_count: 42078
places: Greece
publisher: Oberon Books