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What was comedy and entertainment like in 411 BC? According to J. F. Johnson, “Lysistrata was produced in 411 B.C. possibly at the Lenaea festival of Athens celebrated in the month roughly equivalent to January” (“Background,” page 1). In the a ....

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... ground between all men to unite them in peace to end the war. All of the Spartan and Athenian men do have one strong tie in common that is highly important to them in this time period. This commonality is their sexual relationship with their wives. Lysistrata knows how important sex is to the men of all city-states. Without the women, the men “walk around the city bent over like men lighting matches in a wind” (726, 1028-9). Lysistrata uses her knowledge to gain power over them by summoning all of the women together and calling for “a sex-strike against war” (701). This “sex-strike” puts the men in “a pretty high-strung condition” (727, ...