actionary; she wants to put things back the way they were. To do that, however, she has to act like a revolutionary. Ending the war would be so easy that women could do it. This is what Aristophanes is telling Athenian men, and that Athenians should concern themselves with preserving the old ways, should they be lost.Even though Lysistrata was published, if you can say that, at the beginning of the year 411 B.C. when a big war was still going on, Aristophanes had written The Acharnians which was about bringing peace. In Lysistrata, he is saying a little more about peace, but even more about gender equality and how this must be achieved in order to obtain peace and order.I hope you will enjoy this story as much as I did,...
