However, there are also serious ideas to be found in Lysistrata’s speeches. The idea that Lysistrata could unite women to end the war would have set up the audience for a traditional battle between the sexes. At the time of the play’s initial production, Athens and Sparta had been at war for twenty years, and this play would have offered one of the few opportunities to laugh at war. Comedies were very popular presentations during the Greek festivals, and there is no reason to think that Lysistrata was not immensely popular. Modern audiences enjoy the sexuality and humor in Aristophanes’ work, and they enjoy what appears as modern feminism and the depiction of strong women. Lysistrata is often produced in contemporary theatre.
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