Lysistrata

  • Lysistrata: Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley
    Lysistrata: Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley
    By Aristophanes, Aubrey Beardsley, Samuel Smith

    This edition originally published: 1896.

  • Lysistrata
    Lysistrata
    By Aristophanes

    This classic comedy — from the 5th century BC — concerns the vow of Greek women to withhold sex from their husbands until the men agree to end the disastrous wars between Athens and Sparta.

  • Lysistrata
    Lysistrata
    By Aristophanes

    Aristophanes helped shape comedy.... despite their often fantasical premises, were fairly consistently concerned with contemporary politics and social institutions. ... mildly aristocratic... patriotic ... suspicious of social innovation... ...

  • Lysistrata
    Lysistrata
    By Aristophanes

    In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war.

  • Lysistrata
    By Aristophanes

    This eBook version of Lysistrata presents the full text of this literary classic.

  • Lysistrata
    Lysistrata
    By Aristophanes

    Of the nearly thirty plays he wrote during his career, eleven are extant. Amongst the most famous of these is Lysistrata, a comedy which focuses on the women of Greece whose husbands have left for the Peloponnesian War.