The women of Greece withhold sex from their husbands until the men end the war. Aristophanes's bawdy anti-war comedy.
Books that mention Lysistrata (4)
The Magus by John Fowles: “'Well, last November they put on Lysistrata.'”
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood: “He has several highly valuable editions that I envy: Dore's Inferno, Dali's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Picasso's Lysistrata.”
Artful by Ali Smith: “Shaw's Pygmalion and Aristophanes's Lysistrata and the leads in My Fair Lady”
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson: “Spike Lee's film Chi-Raq, a hip-hop adaptation of Lysistrata set on the South Side of Chicago”