Lysistrata -

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Euripides might have referred to the vulgarity of the women’s thoughts and language:
“It’s a sair thing, the dear knows, for a woman
tae sleep alone wi’oot a prick – but we maun do
it, for the sake of peace”

The language of the women is, as mentioned earlier, strictly for the humor. For Euripides to make such a quote seems rather incorrect. It is to a certain extent the men who are the shameless beasts who beat their wives and fight senseless wars.
Lysistrata, on the contrary shows women acting bravely and even aggressively against men who seem resolved on ruining the city- state by prolonging a pointless and excessively expending reserves stored in the Acropolis. The men being away at war would come home when they could, sexually relieve them selves and then leave again to precede a meaningless war. The women challenge the masculine role model to preserve traditional way of life in the community. When the women become challenged ...

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