A review by sidharthvardhan
Lysistrata by Aristophanes

3.0

Is it me or comedies and satires (when compared to tragedies or other genres) seem to give much more power on average to women? In a book by a Homer or Soohacles, Lysistrata would either have been raped or burned alive or something. Simone de Beauvoir said in Second Sex women are too close and live in same family as their oppressors, men, and thus unlike other opressed sections like people of color or poor have some conflicting interests. I wonder what she would say of this play.