Aristophanes' Lysistrata
Subtitle: a new version
By: by Gilbert Seldes.
Contributors: Seldes, Gilbert, 1893-1970
Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart, incorporated
Published: 1930
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; grc
Number of pages: 146
Other titles: Lysistrata.
Description: Lysistrata is a comedy by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BCE, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece 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. The play is notable for being an early exposé of sexual relations in a male-dominated society.
Notes: Adapter's autograph presentation copy.