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  • "Lysistrata" - the story of a band of woman determined to end the Peloponnesian War by withholding sex from their "menfolk" - into a modern discussion of sex and gender roles.

    The Harvard Crimson :: News 2009

  • Some people who agree are pushing what I can only call the Lysistrata campaign finance reform plan.

    Lawrence Lessig: Change Congress -- We're Bringing Sexy Back 2009

  • That's fine with me; his Lysistrata is a terrific piece with great music.

    Upcoming in Dallas, Oh, and Also in San Francisco Lisa Hirsch 2008

  • For those who don't get the title, you should pick up Aristophanes 'Lysistrata, which is about Grecian women who band and refuse all men of Greece sex so that they would stop warring each other.

    It's Lysistrata in Colombia! fantasyecho 2006

  • 'Peace' and 'Lysistrata' -- produced at intervals of years, the sixth, tenth and twenty-first of the Peloponnesian War, and impressing on the Athenian people the miseries and disasters due to it and to the scoundrels who by their selfish and reckless policy had provoked it, the consequent ruin of industry and, above all, agriculture, and the urgency of asking Peace.

    The Acharnians 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

  • Better call Lysistrata then; she is the only person will bring us to terms.

    The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

  • 'Peace' and 'Lysistrata' -- produced at intervals of years, the sixth, tenth and twenty-first of the Peloponnesian War, and impressing on the

    The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

  • It's called Lysistrata Jones and is based on the original Lysistrata, which, of course, was written by Aristophanes back in 411 B.C.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • It's called Lysistrata Jones and is based on the original Lysistrata, which, of course, was written by Aristophanes back in 411 B.C.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • It's called Lysistrata Jones and is based on the original Lysistrata, which, of course, was written by Aristophanes back in 411 B.C.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

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  • written in 411 BC

    November 12, 2010