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    <body><![CDATA[How entertaining! It wasn't at all what I expected, and I almost laughed out loud at some parts.  I couldn't describe it better than the back of the book:  &quot;The most famous, bawdy satire of Ancient Greece&quot;.<br/><br/>&quot;The women of Greece are weary of the extended war between Athens a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42173395">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I started this and finished it, only taking breaks to laugh. This play was hilarious. I'm so glad to have read this after being pissed off by how women were treated in <em>The Orestia</em>. The women in this play started out being treated like dirt, but eventually got the respect of many men, through very cl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70279909">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this very modern translation of this very weir, little play at the new bookstore in my neighborhood this weekend (hurrah!). I've been meaning to read it for a while now because I've heard Lysistrata referenced several times in articles and books I've read and felt it was finally time to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62040604">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Old Comedy in its purest state. It never ceases to amaze me that something over 2000 years old can be so poignant, so humorous and so relevant in contemporary society.. It also never ceases to amaze me when I use 'poignant' in a sentence. But in all seriousness, it is incredible to read this...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68783281">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I know this play is ment to be a comedic tale of female enpowerment, and is all about the feminist statement, but I don't feel strongly enough about any of those ideas to interpret the play in such a way. <br/><br/>And i'm glad I don't because seeing past the feminist message, as ignorant as this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63960135">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The basic plot behind this book is pretty well known. The Greek women get tired of war and decide force a peace treaty. Their weapon of choice is sex - they will withhold intimacy from their men until the men agree to call off the war.<br/><br/>As might be expected, the dialogue is pretty full of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49274603">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This review is in relation to a translation by an unknown author.<br/><br/>Aristophanes is finishing up my tour of the ancient playwrights this summer, and boy is he different from Sophocles and Euripedes. Perhaps it's mostly the modernized translation, but this is bawdy and lewd in a way that's e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22295549">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first piece of &quot;literature&quot; I've read in a while, and maybe that's why I feel it's so contrived and pointless.  None of the devices in this play hold true in reality.  (Excuse my vulgarity in this review.  The translator Alan Sommerstein used the c**t word a few times, so I fee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19019804">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[For a play written in 411 BCE, Aristophanes’ <em>Lysistrata</em> was quite amusing.  Greek comedy, I have decided, is much more accessible than Greek tragedy.  And in the case of <em>Lysistrata</em>, it is almost too accessible.<br/><br/>Aristophanes’ play was all about sex.  All the Greek women, tired of their...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13563143">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Lysistrata, an Athenian who is deemed a woman of upmost virtue by the other women in the area, invokes a plan to regain peace with the Spartans. With pure intentions, she calls a gathering of women in the area and relates to them a plan that she has demised. This plan, which all of the women (exclud...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12261814">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this play. It is reassuring to know that the Greeks were a bit immature. My favorite line in the play being:<br/>Lysistrata: What do you suggest, then?<br/>Calonice: Well, if we could slaughter a full-grown cock...<br/>Lysistrata: You've got a one-track mind.<br/><br/>I was not...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40529918">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very funny, bawdy play in which the women of Greece decide the only way to stop their men from going to war with each other is to refuse to sleep with them.  Cue the tortured soldiers walking around with massive erections for the rest of the play.  (Even though we know those silly Spartans would hav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51330479">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this play because the Thomas Jefferson Education recommends reading Greek plays.  I don't think this one is on the Classics list in that book.  It's about a group of Greek women who stop having relations with their husbands until their husbands stop the war between the Greek states.  It's pre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40376513">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Lysistrata leads a band of women to withhold sex from men in order to end the Peloponnesian War and to secure peace for Athens. While interpreted as a plain spoken declaration for women’s rights, I do not agree. While the women display all the power and intelligence in the play, and men are presen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3654933">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This play is trotted out to this day for anti-war protests. And that's cool by me. That is how I was introduced to it during college, back when people were first beginning to seriously question our war in Iraq. Still, <em>Lysistrata</em> is worth seeing/reading any time. The premise and execution are very fu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62353075">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this slender volume at the Tattered Cover Book Store, and plan to re-read it on the plane trip home.  I hear it may be performed in Newport next spring.  I'm looking for a passage to read from it for Banned Books Week celebration at the NPL....<br/><br/>It was fun to read, a good comedy a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71313628">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Aristophanes's &quot;Lysistrata&quot; is one of the great comedies from classical antiquity. Central to the work is the vow by the women of Greece to withhold sex from their husbands until they end the brutal war between Athens and Sparta. A hilarious and decisively anti-war comedic drama, &quot;Lysistrata&quot; stands as one of the great works from the classical age of drama.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[believe it or not - this is also a play by Bertolt Brecht... which I played &quot;the old whore&quot; in. <br/><br/>in reading the book and script - i have to say the factor of female influence in socioeconomic decisions, in a time that predates Christianity, is essentially accurate and is what ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22046644">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led by the title character, the women of the warring city-states of Greece agree to withhold sexual favors with their husbands until they agree to cease fighting. The war of the sexes that ensues makes <em>Lysistrata</em> a comedy without peer in the history of theater.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's Funny and modern which is unexpected for an Ancient Greek play...still it's just not that fun to read most plays - read it outloud with friends then it is worth it!]]></body>
    
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