Lysistrata / Aristophanes ; translated by Kenneth McLeish.

Author/creator Aristophanes author.
Other author Aristophanes
Other author McLeish, Kenneth, 1940-1997, translator.
Format Electronic
PublicationLondon : Bloomsbury, [2013]
Copyright Date©2013
Description1 online resource
Supplemental ContentDrama online
Subjects

Summary Originally performed in Athens in 411 BC, 'Lysistrata' 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.
General noteTranslated from the Ancient Greek.
General notePreviously published in print: in Plays one. London, Methuen Drama, 1998.
Source of descriptionDescription based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 18, 2013).
Genre/formDrama.
Standard identifier# 10.5040/9781408190845.00000015

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