Facts about Lysistrata

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   Unusually for ancient Greek comedy, Lysistrata features a chorus split into two opposing groups, one of old men and one of old women, who quarrel throughout the play.

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   Lysistrata's title character is a strong-willed Athenian woman whose name is thought to mean 'she who disbands the army' in Greek.

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   In Lysistrata, women occupy the Acropolis and seize control of the treasury to prevent funding of continued warfare.

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   The play was first performed in Athens in 411 BCE, during a period of severe military and political crisis for the city.

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   Aristophanes wrote Lysistrata, a comedy in which Greek women withhold sex from their husbands to force an end to the Peloponnesian War.

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