Reading response

Aristophanes’ Lysistrata is one of the most famous plays to have survived from ancient Greece, and its coarse
sexual humor retains the ability to shock the audience (or reader) even today, over two millennia later. But how
are we to interpret its message? Ancient Greece was a a patriarchal society, in which men exercised the power
in public. Imagine that you were a man in the audience–the sort of person who fights in wars and serves in
government–when the play was first performed in 411 BCE, during the war between Athens and Sparta (The
Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BCE). How do you think you would have responded? What do you think
Aristophanes hoped his audience would take from this strange play?

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