her as they should have from the start. They could go on with their festivals and be completely Pan-Hellenic. They are Greeks fighting Greeks and that isnt acceptable. They needed to unify and fight as a people for the good of all the Greeks.Lysistrata wanted the war stopped for the good of all the people of Greece. It had been going on too long, too much money had been spent, too many people had died. To many things had been forgotten about for the mere reason of war The woman wanted their men home and rightly so. The killing needed to stop and the men needed to come home and run the cities and the land once more. She wanted things back the way that they used to be. Her plans were successful. The war was able to stopped and the needless killing ended. The men returned home to their wives and families were reunited. Lysistrata and Creon wanted to help their communities in different ways. Only Lysistrata was triumphant in her plan. She started with her own family and then moved beyond that for all the women and the whole of Greece. Creon was thinking big and acting small. He was focusing on community and the government or the polis first of all and in doing that, he lost what is the most important issue, family. ...
