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Lysistrata

Aristophanes

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

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.

About This Volume

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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