Archive for Greek theater
Sex-Deprived Kenyan v. Lysistrata’s Daughters, NGO
I find myself unduly interested in the sex life of a Kenyan man.
A while ago, I compared the political courage of Liberian women to the moxie shown by Lysistrata and company. Lysistrata, a creation of the comic playwright Aristophanes, was an Athenian woman who led her Greek sisters in a sex boycott until the men [...]
Lysistrata’s Daughters
In Aristophanes’ funny-through-the-ages play, “Lysistrata,” the title character (from Athens) leads a pack of determined Greek women in withholding sex from their husbands until these war-mongering hubbies cease the endless Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta.
Although the play is often (justifiably) remembered for its ribald descriptions of the sex that’s withheld (my favorite is a position referred [...]