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Thread #57071   Message #896070
Posted By: GUEST
22-Feb-03 - 03:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: Mar 3rd: Lysistrata Peace Project
Subject: RE: BS: Mar 3rd: Lysistrata Peace Project
If you went to the links you would find out! No, the project has nothing to do with women withholding sex from men. It is the famous Greek comedy writer Aristophanes' anti-war play, written in response to the Pelopomnesian War. By the time he was writing, Athenians were becoming increasingly demoralized at the ways democracy wasn't working...there are many things from the play that resonate with our circumstances today.

Are any of you gentlemen familiar with Aristophanes' political comedies?