Lysistrata
With Athens and Sparta years into a war neither can win, Lysistrata gathers the women of Greece and puts a proposal to them: no sex until the men make peace. The wives seize the treasury on the Acropolis and hold out against husbands, magistrates and one another. Comedy as peace treaty.
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- alludes to ↑ Medea
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