Theatre : Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (Theatrical Group of the Municipality of Glyfada)

Tuesday 23 September

Opening time : 20:30

Marina C

Lysistrata is one of the most famous comedies of ancient Greece

playwright Aristophanes, who was taught in 411 BC in the midst of the

prolonged and disastrous Peloponnesian War between Athens and the

Sparta. The work is a powerful anti-war message, given in the

characteristic comic and satirical manner of Aristophanes, with the main theme of the

sex strike organized by the women of Athens and Sparta (and

other Greek cities) led by the Athenian Lysistrata, who

decide to refuse all sexual intercourse with their husbands until they

to stop the war and agree on peace. At the same time, the

elderly women of Athens occupy the Acropolis, where it is kept

the treasury to prevent the financing of the war.