These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!

ἀλλὰ μὴ ὥρασ᾽ ἵκοισθ᾽: ὡς ἐστὲ θωπικαὶ φύσει, κἄστ᾽ ἐκεῖνο τοὔπος ὀρθῶς κοὐ κακῶς εἰρημένον, οὔτε σὺν πανωλέθροισιν οὔτ᾽ ἄνευ πανωλέθρων.

Aristophanes

Lysistrata

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Women Gender relations Men and women

Author

Aristophanes

Source

Lysistrata

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedic play Greek theater

Language

Greek

Time

411 BC 410s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Greece Europe Ancient Greece

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Original Citation

Aristophanes. Λυσιστράτη [Lysistrata]. c. 411 BC, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Aristophanes. "Lysistrata." Lysistrata and Other Plays. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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