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Galeria Lysistrate or Lysistrata (2nd-century) was the concubina of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius. She was originally the slave of Pius's wife, Faustina the Elder and later manumitted. She became the acknowledged companion of Antoninus Pius after the death of Faustina in 138.
The 2017 Canterbury High School graduating drama class presents Lysistrata of Aristophanes, a feminist Greek comedy about a group of women from opposite sides of a war who band together to end it by withholding sex from their husbands.
Lysistrata. female managers, the Polias priestess—the highest public position a woman could hold—was in effect the First Lady of Athens. She had a public visibility and authority unavailable to any other woman.
Lysistrata, written by Aristophanes and first performed in 411 BCE, is a classical Greek comedy about women who withhold sex from men during the Peloponnesian War to force them to enter peace negotiations. Notably, the play is an early example of gender roles and sexual relations in a society dominated by men.
The adultery statute set aside frivolous liaisons with most types of women as unacceptable, while the lex Iulia et Papia conferred a degree of legitimacy on one or more types of concubinage. Ideally, concubinage did not distract upper-class men from the responsibili-.
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LYSISTRATA If they’d called a Bacchic celebration or some festival for Pan or Colias or for Genetyllis, you’d not be able to move around through all the kettle drums. But as it is, there are no women here. [Calonice enters, coming to meet Lysistrata] Ah, here’s my neighbour—at least she’s come.* Hello, Calonice. CALONICE Hello, Lysistrata.
