When looking up a list of the greatest writers of antiquity I came across the name Aristophanes. I looked to see what I could check out this week from the library for Aristophanes and the only play available was Lysistrata.
Lysistrata decides that the men will never end the war that is raging and she realizes only women can stop it. To do so she gathers the women of the warring cities and together they vow to withhold sex from their husbands until peace is established. Her plan works and peace is restored.
Overall I was not that impressed with this play.
“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.”
Hans Christian Andersen
“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
