Battle of the Sexes in Lysistrata and in Modern Society Between Women and MenDiamond BondProfessor WatkinsWorld LiteratureEnglish 240Lysistrata organized a gathering of the largest number of Greek women to talk about the plan to end the Peloponnesian War. . As Lysistrata waits for the women of Thebes, Sparta, and different regions to reach her, she insults the women's faults. Lysistrata arranges to ask women to refuse sex with their spouses until a peace agreement is reached. Lysistrata continues to mention in the play “I am on fire to the bone. I am frankly ashamed to be a woman, a member of a sex that cannot even live up to male slander! To hear our husbands talk, we're cunning, deceitful, always plotting, scheming monsters..." she says, leading to her climatic decision to refuse sex. Almost all of her dialogue is a profeminist diatribe on the need for greater involvement of women in society Lysistrata also made agreements with the most senior women of Athens, also known as the Choir of Old Women. Akropolis later that day these women from the different districts finally come together and Lysistrata persuades them to make a solemn vow to withhold sex from their spouses until both sides sign a peace agreement over a pitcher of wine. to the gods during a feast of their wish, they hear the resonances of the most established women taking the Akropolis, the fortification which houses the treasure of Athens Lysistrata is recognized by most scholars as the best work of Athens. Aristophanes, as the predominant and appropriate now as this was the time it was composed. Aristophanes' intention was to show women doing things that would turn into charming and cunning people like their husbands had imagined them to be. There's a chance that Lysistrata was sincerely intended to be feminist, so why did she deploy an important goal in ending the war, given that so many women are left without men to relate to? marry? This could bode well since women and men are presented in an unflattering light which Aristophanes implied in his play to show the madness of war. The feminist qualities we see today were perhaps only comical. Battle of the sexes in Lysistrata and in modern society between women and men Sources: - “Lysistrata: feminist or war comic? Yahoo Contributor Network. Np, November-December 2008. Internet. April 18, 2014.-Shaw, Jack. “LYSISTRATA: The Entertaining Battle of the Sexes.” Scene Magazine. Np, October 16, 2011. Web. April 18, 2014. instruments and incidents.