Lysistrata - (Signet Classics) (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In Aristophanes' most popular play, sex is a powerful agent of reconciliation. As war ravages ancient Greece, a band of women, led by Lysistrata, promise to deny their husbands all sex until they stop fighting. And the battle of the sexes begins. Revised reissue.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>In <b>Lysistrata</b> a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war. <p><br></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>?[Full of] delirious and scabrous wit.? <BR>?"New York Times"<BR><BR><br><br>a[Full of] delirious and scabrous wit.a <BR>a"New York Times"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Aristophanes</b> was born, probably in Athens, c. 449 BC and died between 386 and 380 BC. Little is known about his life, but there is a portrait of him in Plato's <b>Symposium</b>. He was twice threatened with prosecution in the 420s for his outspoken attacks on the prominent politician Cleon, but in 405 he was publicly honored and crowned for promoting Athenian civic unity in <b>The Frogs</b>. Aristophanes had his first comedy produced when he was about twenty-one, and wrote forty plays in all. The eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes are published in the Penguin Classics series as <b>The Birds and Other Plays</b>, <b>Lysistrata and Other Plays</b>, and <b>The Wasps/The Poet and the Women/The Frogs</b>.
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