The Lysistrata

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/The_Lysistrata
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:play
gptkbp:author gptkb:Aristophanes
gptkbp:character gptkb:Kleonike
gptkb:Lampito
gptkb:Myrrhine
gptkb:Cinesias
Magistrate
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin Ancient Greece
gptkbp:firstPerformed 411 BC
gptkbp:firstPublished 411 BC
gptkbp:genre gptkb:comedy
gptkbp:historicalName gptkb:Peloponnesian_War
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Lysistrata
gptkbp:influenced modern feminist literature
gptkbp:language gptkb:Ancient_Greek
gptkbp:literaryPeriod gptkb:Old_Comedy
gptkbp:mainCharacter gptkb:Lysistrata
gptkbp:notableAdaptation gptkb:Lysistrata_Jones
gptkb:Chi-Raq
gptkb:Lysistrata_(film,_1986)
gptkbp:originalLanguage gptkb:Ancient_Greek
gptkbp:performedAt gptkb:Theatre_of_Dionysus
gptkbp:plotSummary Athenian women, led by Lysistrata, withhold sex to force men to end the Peloponnesian War.
gptkbp:setting gptkb:Athens
gptkbp:subject women's agency
anti-war protest
sexual abstinence as political strategy
gptkbp:theme gender roles
war and peace
sexual politics
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Greek_drama
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6