Lysistrata (In Our Time)
411 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristophanes' comedy in which the women of Athens and Sparta, led by Lysistrata, secure peace in the long-running war between them by staging a sex strike. To the men in the audience in 411BC, the idea that peace in the Peloponnesian War could be won so easily was ridiculous and the thought that their wives could have so much power over them was even more so.
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Around 411 BCE
- Wars of the Diadochi (322 BCE)
- Reign of Alexander the Great (336 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (356 BCE)