Instead, there was to be no romantic relations of any kind with their husbands. In order to force peace, the women decided to go on strike. So, in Aristophanes' play, the wives and mothers of the warring cities, led by the Athenian Lysistrata, came together with an ingenious solution. Many Greeks believed the war was bringing nothing but ruin to Greece, making it susceptible to Persian attack. The play is essentially a dream about peace. Shown in 411 BCE at the Lenaea festival in Athens, it was written during the final years of the war between Athens and Sparta.
Lysistrata was the third and final of the peace plays written by the great Greek comic playwright Aristophanes (c.
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