by Aristòfanes · La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788419013828
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Lysistrata premiered in 411 BC, at a critical moment for Athens, increasingly suffocated by the war against Sparta. During the long Peloponnesian War, Athenians and Spartans neglected their homes and family duties. To put an end to the situation, the beautiful Lysistrata calls the women of both sides to an unprecedented revolt: a sex strike to force the suffering combatants to reflect. The double pacifist and feminist message of Lysistrata—and its eventually vaudevillian character—has made it Aristophanes' most performed, imitated, and adapted work since the mid-19th century, not only in theater, but also in musical theater, opera, film, and comics, even becoming a symbolic tool for denouncing contemporary armed conflicts.
Aristophanes was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens. He wrote forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete. The majority of his surviving plays belong to the genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are considered its most valuable examples. Aristophanes's plays were performed at the religious festivals of Athens, mostly the City Dionysia and the Lenaia, and several of them won the first prize in their respective competitions.
