In Our Time: LysistrataSeries 1, episode 0Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristophanes' comedy Lysistrata, in which the women of two warring nations force their men to make peace by going on a sex strike. They look at the other aspect of the women's protest - seizing a treasury meant to fund the war - and how this element of the plot would have been received by audiences in 411BCE Click to see when In Our Time, Lysistrata is coming up on UK TV Cast (unconfirmed)
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