Greek playwright, Aristophanes was considered one of the greatest writers of comedy in literary history. When he wrote his comedic play, “Lysistrata,” in 411 BC, little did he know it would still ...

Menon was thus identical with the homonymous commander of Thessalian troops in 431 BC (II 22.3) and the father of the Pharsalian Thukydides attested as proxenos in Athens in 411 BC (VIII 92.8).

Lysistrata, the one who disbands armies, staged in 411 BC in Athens, is the first dramatic example centered on female emancipation, not only as an act of rebellion against the male gender but ...

The play unfolds in a world where men battle it out in bloody wars, and the women they left behind devise an ingenious plan ...

Dec 14: Lysistrata Jones A new musical that marries the plot of Aristophanes’s 411 BC comedy *Lysistrata* to the story of Athens University’s fictional dud of a basketball team.