1. Lysistrata is a very silly play with a very bawdy storyline.

2. Lysistrata is the only one of Aristophanes’ plays to be named after one of its …

3.  · Cinesias Entreating Myrrhina to Coition, Illustration from Lysistrata by Aristophanes 1896 Giclee Print by Aubrey Beardsley

4. An introduction to a classic play Lysistrata is the first female lead in a Western comedy, and this alone arguably makes Aristophanes’ play worthy of study and analysis

5. In 411 BC Aristophanes wrote Lysistrata which is another anti-war play and shows the plight of women trying to bring about peace in an attempt to stop losing their sons to the war.

6. Aristophanes’ most famous treatment of war in general, and of the Peloponnesian War in particular, occurs in his Lysistrata, in which the women on both the Athenian and Spartan sides of the war famously organize a sex strike in order to pressure their husbands to end the conflict.