Cinesias

women

gender stereotypes

different ideas

Lysistrata

Aristophanes

the treatment of women

duties

agreements

Myrrhine

“What do you think you’re doing, you naughty girl, listening to those other women and giving me a hard time and hurting yourself as well.”


Cinesias: “And what a long time it’s been since you’ve celebrated Aphrodite’s holy mysteries. Won’t you come home?”
Myrrhine: “I certainly will not, not until you men agree to a settlement and stop the war.”

Calonice

Magistrate

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