Lit Online: Lysistrata
What do the combined Choruses tell the audience?
They can have loans from the treasury and they are invited to feast with the women
Why does Lysistrata tell the delegations they should make Peace?
They have helped each other before
Why does Lysistrata remove her veil?
To put it on the Commissioner
What does Lysistrata tell the Commissioner the women will first do to make peace in Athens?
Withdraw the Army of Occupation from the downtown
Why does Lysistrata say that she is ashamed to be a woman?
Women don't stand up to male slander
What does Lysistrata admire about the Korinthian Girl?
Her monstrous buttocks
Who is Myrrhine's husband?
Kinesias
Who is Lysistrata's next-door neighbor?
Kleonike
What do the women sacrifice?
A bottle of wine
How does Lysistrata propose the women will make the men declare peace?
Abstinence until peace is declared
What does Lysistrata intend to do with the money from the treasury?
Budget the money for the city
How do the men characterize the women?
Deceitful
What part of Greece do Peace's legs represent?
Megara
What does the Chorus of Men repeatedly call for?
Misogyny
How does the Commissioner define the gift of women?
Moral Chaos
How does Myrrhine torment her husband?
Myrrhine makes it seem like she will have sex with him, but doesn't
Why does Lysistrata bring out her naked handmaid, Peace?
Peace makes the men more urgent to make an agreement
What reason do the women give for leaving the Akropolis?
Pregnancy, need to weave and unpeeled flax
How does the Chorus of Women defeat the Chorus of Men in the first round of conflict between the choruses?
The women douse the men with water
In what condition do the Spartans arrive?
Sexually Frustrated and desperate for peace
Why is Kleonike upset that the Milesians cut off the leather trade?
She needs a masturbation kit
How does the Chorus of Men plan to get the women out of the Akropolis?
Smoke them out
Where is Lampito from?
Sparta
What is the meaning of the oracle?
The women will be humiliated if they don't work together for Peace
What does Lysistrata compare with spinning wool?
The master plan for Athens
Why might the old women have been sent to seize the Akropolis?
The old women aren't as important to a sex-strike
From what region is Myrrhine?
The outskirts of Athens
What reason does Kleonike give Lysistrata for the women being late?
The women are tending their children
