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Lysistrata Aristophanes was a comedy poet in the fourth century B.C. during the time of the Peloponnesian War. Aristophanes' writing style in this play seems to be cynical, and suggesting the far-out. This is a kind of absurd and funny Aristophanes' comedy in which the main characters, the heroes of the story, are women. And these are very smart women. This is a comedy showing a powerfully women named Lysistrata, who is the lead …

…being away from their family, their chores and their domestic responsibilities. Athenian women are after all not just defying their husbands but ultimately the whole Greek culture of the times in which they lived. They had a place, and status quo demanded they assume it. Does history really repeat itself? Even in our modern times of today women still are seen as unequal, but in a modern stealth way. Basically, War is a man business.