5/22/2023 0 Comments Lysistrata cliff notes![]() ![]() ![]() With support from Lampito, the Spartan, Lysistrata persuades the other women to withhold sexual privileges from their menfolk as a means of forcing them to end the interminable Peloponnesian War. She has convened a meeting of women from various city states in Greece (there is no mention of how she managed this feat) and, very soon after confiding in her friend about her concerns for the female sex, the women begin arriving. Lysistrata however is an extraordinary woman with a large sense of individual and social responsibility. Women, as represented by Calonice, are sly hedonists in need of firm guidance and direction. These lines, spoken by Lysistrata and her friend Calonice at the beginning of the play, set the scene for the action that follows. ![]()
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