Lysistrata by Aristophanes: Key quotes
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- Lysistrata Key Quotes
- Sexual Innuendos
- Caloncie: "Big Red One"
- Calonice: "Very big and very meaty"
- Chorus of Old men: "for indeed women excel in riding"
- Magistrate: "stick a bolt-pin into her opened clasp"
- Lysistrata: "To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war"
- Lysistrata to the Magistrate: "If that's all that troubles you, here take my veil, wrap it round your head, and hold your tongue Then take this basket; put on a girdle, card wool, munch beans. The War shall be women's business.”
- "all our husbands think that we are such clever villians"
- "Six inch leather jobs"
- Certain items during the war were banned from entering Athens such as the Boetian eels and others
- "banging of drums...roofs of houses"
- Referring to the festival of Adonis and the typical male view that woman are obsessed with: drink and sex
- Echoes of Tragedy
- "We must never let ourselvesbe worsted by women"
- Military language
- "Fully armed fighting women"
- violation of the nature of traditional views of women
- "Women of the reserve"
- allied women
- "no ********* of the corpses"
- Only allowed if a battle had been solidly won
- "Fully armed fighting women"
- "Let war be the care of menfolk"
- Hektor said something similar but he said it out of tender concern
- Carding of the wool speech
- Sexual Innuendos
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