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ID: 360902
Title: Lysistrata
Author: Aristophanes
Narrator: Marnye Young
Format: Unabridged
Length: 01:52:22
Language: English
Release date: 12-25-18
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Audio Theatre, Drama
Summary:
The Peloponnesian War drags on and on with no end in sight, and the tough-minded Lysistrata has had enough. Men!always making stupid decisions that affect everyone. Womens opinions are never listened to.
Taking matters into her own hands, Lysistrata convenes a meeting of women from warring city-states across Greece and calls for a sex strike. Its a hard sell, but in the end it is agreed: they will withhold sex until the war is brought to hasty a close.
Playing their part too, the old women of Athens seize control of the Acropolisand with it, the treasuryholing up behind its barred gates and choking off the silver that funds the interminable war.
Its a waiting game, and a difficult onesome of the women are already becoming desperate for sex and deserting the cause. But Lysistrata is determined to stay the course and soon restores discipline. The men cant hold out forever can they?
First staged in 411 BCE, Lysistrata is the bawdy, comic account of one womans singular mission to end the Peloponnesian War using the only means that seems available to her in a male-dominated world.
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