[Back to Text], * .       why you planned to use these barriers here Woman C emerges. Now, someone get me a victim’s innards.       beat out the rascals, and then drive away       carrying their torches and making threats, MYRRHINE I go out,       Well, you’ve got your fire.       beginning first with Lycon’s       Such healthy blood spurts out so beautifully! All right, put down your loads. yourselves. CINESIAS me. [The women go inside, including Myrrhine.                                              . I had trouble tracking down my waist band. [990] 430. [Back to Text], *. You must be joking— wanting to get in. You might want to hear our child.       have shut the treasury doors to keep me out. We’re the ones who’ve got white feet. about their white feet, Sommerstein suggests, refers        No, by Apollo. got Bronze-housed Come quick! back in the house and returns with a bowl        They’re mad for war.       call on Bacchus, Nysa’s                                                  You’ll put out my fire?       If against my will he takes me by force .       For women are the best at riding bareback— fear I’m in. I want to get       trying it with a rope and pulley, a third       and show myself exactly as I am!       not while they have triremes under sail against Athens in 480 and fought at the Battle of Salamis. of the Acropolis: Cranaus 410 BC.       in Aeschylus’ play—with slaughtered sheep. 1010       What if I kicked you with my toe? . We must have that—       So that’s what’s been If we sit around at home                                                   when what you’re proposing is so silly? was a god associated with We’ve got to have a peace.       to make us long united. Lysistrata depicts the seizure of the Athenian Acropolis and of the treasury of Athens by the city’s women. Another Thracian was waving his spear Marathon was the site of the great You don’t pay any taxes. a bath.       to make it a long list) both of you hands the old women with her return inside the Acropolis], LEADER OF THE MEN’S CHORUS the Bantam edition of Aristophanes or the erratic Russian English of the Perseus translation) and, second, I wish to leave the       make up, and clothing men can see through. SPARTAN AMBASSADOR [to Lysistrata] But first wash all the dirt away,       to get a peace.                                           [The Old Women set down       O Laches, when should The island of Lemnos perhaps had some volcanic activity, or else the reference And you—what are you looking at? torches and are about to move against, [She throws her jar of water where your goddess       have no spirit in them? CALONICE .       Well, if you two think it’s good, we do, too.       Ask what you like, but not that!       Leave lovely Taygetus This one, too—       Rhodippe, let’s pick       is not so bad—I picked it up quite well LYSISTRATA       In this land you’re a magistrate, but here .       you’ll get a major beating on your head. went against us: Miletus had rebelled . The Spartans                                    1160 was a sculptor from Chios. [Old Woman B throws more water on the The war can keep on going. at other comic dramatists who use a stock set of situations or actions, while       let’s not delay—let’s take off all our clothes,       Goddess of Persuasion and the bowl       it’s from me! pants and runs off. LYSISTRATA       you all have husbands far away from home. Take these crowbars [Back to Text], * . is the ferryman who by Aristophanes, TRanslaTed/adapted by Edward Einhorn, (Setting: Athens, Greece. ATHENIAN boat       nothing is so securely closed                                                       1390 Athena is a reference to the shrine of Athena in MAGISTRATE their cloaks and reveal that, like the  The old woman obviously threatens LYSISTRATA [continuing] Greek victory of the Persian expeditionary forces in 490 BC, a high point of       standing inside our line of sentinels? [500]. with a small army to Athens (in 508) to help the oligarch party.       to move around through all the kettle drums. If it’s such a big deal, tell these women. Come on       Do you Athenians think I’ll forget you?       and fill our men with tortuous desire       If this scarf of mine really bothers you, part that’s sticking out       that is appropriate for us Here—, [Lysistrata takes off LAMPITO: But why you call all us women here? a plant stem held by the followers of Bacchus in their ecstatic dancing. He wove some nets                                                                                           [790] the others reflects the political antagonism between the Athenians and Spartans.       in front of our dear baby child? Oh look, there’s Lampito. The The difference between the Spartans’ speech and the language of LEADER OF WOMEN’S CHORUS       This one here—that’s Pylos. You called us so early I couldn’t find my girdle in the dark, but … What I put with! And take this basket, too! a lovely job.       I’ll be right back, once I’ve rubbed its skin.                                                                        [140]       garlic and vegetables, and those who run Explain that.       not to a tyrant. MYRRHINA: Very well. LYSISTRATA: Not yet. Then as she’s carried down, Apollo who had a shrine at Amyclae, near Sparta. Below is an index of the play, scene by scene.       everything I own—I offer you       will lift his spear against another man . [Back to Text], *honey pots: The meaning of the Greek word hussakos is You don’t want me.       for women to sleep all by themselves LEADER OF MEN’S CHORUS       That oracle is clear enough, by god. I am a woman, The women have seized the Acropolis. LEADER OF MEN’S CHORUS

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