Written in 411 BC, Lysistrata is one of history’s most audacious comedies. Aristophanes’s sharp-tongued heroine convinces the women of Greece to withhold intimacy from their husbands until the men agree to end the Peloponnesian War. The result is bawdy, brilliant, and surprisingly timeless in its anti-war message.
Among the oldest surviving works of comic drama, Lysistrata crackles with wit and political satire that still lands more than two thousand years on. Download this free EPUB and experience one of antiquity’s sharpest comic minds at full throttle.