Lysistrata

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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!

Aristophanes

Lysistrata

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Topic

Women Gender relations Men and women

Author

Aristophanes

Source

Lysistrata

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedic play Greek theater

Language

Greek

Time

411 BC 410s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Aristophanes. Λυσιστράτη [Lysistrata]. c. 411 BC, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Aristophanes. "Lysistrata." Lysistrata and Other Plays. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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A woman's time of opportunity is short, and if she doesn't seize it, no one wants to marry her, and she sits watching for omens.

Lysistrata

Lysistrata

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Topic

Women and aging Women

Speaker

Lysistrata

Author

Aristophanes

Source

Lysistrata

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

Greek

Time

414 BC 410s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Aristophanes. Λυσιστράτη [Lysistrata]. c. 411 BC, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Aristophanes. "Lysistrata." Lysistrata and Other Plays. Penguin Classics, 2008.