Λυσιστράτη
Lysistrata
Aristophanes · first staged 411 BC, probably at the Lenaia · result unknown
The women of Greece refuse sex until the men make peace.
Persons, in order of appearance
- Λυ.Lysistrata
- Κλ.Calonice
- Μυ.Myrrhine
- Λαμ.Lampito
- Πασ.All the Women
- Χορο.Chorus of Old Men
- Γυ.Chorus of Women
- Πρ.Magistrate
- Γυ. ΑʹFirst Woman
- Γυ. ΒʹSecond Woman
- Γυ. ΓʹThird Woman
- Γυ. ΔʹFourth Woman
- Γε.Old Man
- Γυ.Woman
- Κι.Cinesias
- Παι.Child
- Κη.Spartan Herald
- Πρυ.Athenian Envoy
- Χο.Chorus
- Λακ.Spartan
- Αθ.Athenian
Translations
- The Eleven Comediesprose · 1912 · aligned by speech · with Coulon's Greek
- Jack Lindsayverse · 1925 · aligned by speech · with Coulon's Greek
- W. J. Hickieprose · 1853 · aligned by speech · with Coulon's Greek
- B. B. Rogersverse · 1924 · aligned by speech · with Coulon's Greek
- Ian Johnston (VIU)verse · aligned by speech · with Coulon's Greek
Greek texts
- Coulon & van Daele, Aristophane, vol. 31928
- F. W. Hall and W. M. Geldart, Aristophanis Comoediae, vol. 21907
Cite as Ar. Lys. 1–1320-1321
Full synopsis (tells the ending)
Lysistrata has called the women of Greece to Athens with a plan to end the war: no sex until the men make peace. Getting them to agree is the first battle. The older women seize the Acropolis and the treasury. The men lay siege, the women hold out, and the strike begins to tell on both sides; a Spartan herald arrives in visible distress. Spartan and Athenian envoys come to Lysistrata, who divides Greece up between them on the body of a girl called Reconciliation, and both sides go off to a feast and their wives.
Drawing: Line drawing after the 1858 plate of a black-figure hydria (Gerhard, Auserlesene griechische Vasenbilder IV, Taf. CCCVIII, 2): five women at a fountain; cut out and retraced.