Back in 411 BC, the Greek poet and playwright, Aristophanes, wrote Lysistrata, a comedy about a woman who rallies others in a unique plan to end the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. She ...

At home in Athens various factions of aristocrats began plotting to overthrow the popular assembly and replace it with an oligarchy. Prominent democrats were assassinated and the Council of Five ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.