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Lysistrata

Aristophanes

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Then let us put an end to war, by ceasing to be wives.

Aristophanes

Why It's Lindy

A brilliant, bawdy comedy that highlights the absurd destructiveness of male ego and politics.

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The women of Greece unite and withhold sex from their husbands to force them to end the Peloponnesian War.

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A brilliant, bawdy comedy that highlights the absurd destructiveness of male ego and politics.

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The women of Greece unite and withhold sex from their husbands to force them to end the Peloponnesian War.

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