Lysistrata

So, Lysistrata was wonderful. A very effortless read with powerful themes on feminism, gender roles and politics. With Lysistrata, Aristophanes achieves something that few writers ever do; timelessness. When the words of a thousand year old play come across to the reader as having a very modern applicability, an incredible thing has happened.

I was truly mesmerized from the first to the last page by the characters and the comedic relevance of the situations they find themselves in. I think it is noteworthy to point out that Lysistrata and Calonice seemed to be divined as the yin and yang of womanly embodiment.

It seems a novel idea to withhold sex as a way of stopping war. I think that this plot mechanism says a lot about the freedom of such thoughts and sexual prowess in ancient Greece, something that makes our modern world seem archaic and stuffy.