Lysistrata and its political agenda Lysistrata was a story written by Aristophanes around 410 BCE, and is a humorous story about how women gain the upper hand over their men and attempt to end to a war. To summarize the story of Lysistrata, she was the wife of someone who participated in the war between Sparta and Athens. She invents a stratagem to try to end the war between the two cities. She and a group of women abstain from their "feminine duties." This idea was to manipulate their husbands into signing a peace treaty in exchange for what was missing. This meant leaving their home and settling on the Acropolis and neglecting everything a woman did in their home. The woman neglected their wool, their seeds and their food, and even their children. More importantly, according to the text, when Lysistrata told the women about their new fort, they all started screaming and telling Lysistrata that she wasn't thinking clearly and that they couldn't do it. “Well, then we have to do without sex altogether. Why do you turn away? Where are you going? Why become so pale? Why these tears? Will you do it or not? What does this hesitation mean? » (470) was said by Lysistrata to propose the plan. This shows that women were not only bossed around by men but also put into a mindset that they didn't want to displease them, perhaps they might have been afraid to do so. The text makes the reader believe that women all want and love sex with their counterparts. Lysistrata stood her ground despite the negative reactions from all the women and showed how wise she was with her plan. She said to the ladies: “If we stay at home all painted and powerful, dressed in our purest robes and carefully shaved, our men will be excited and want to take us away; but if you do not come to them and move away, they will soon conclude a truce” (471). Showing that she really means what she takes seriously, some ladies ask what happens if they are forced, so Lysistrata tells them to "give grudgingly." They take no pleasure in resorting to violence. You must torment them in every possible way. which would make them all happy with the result. The wise Lysistrata must play the role of the mother of the soldiers who call themselves men. Perhaps there was satire here that every man needs a mother figure to help him make the right decisions in life. Lysistrata makes a ploy to bring in the statue of a nude female figure to help advance her cause (494). It was wise to do so because the men are all pissed off by this statue and can't even think straight. In doing so, she manipulates men to obtain said truce. She tells them both to meet her in friendship and without fighting, essentially telling the men not to act like children. Then she goes and says to them: “I am a woman, it is true, but I have a spirit; I'm not bad off when it comes to indigenous spirit, and listening to my father and elders, I had a decent schooling. (494) She tells them this not only to imply that she is intelligent and wise, but she insists that it is because of her father and grandfather that implies why she ended up where she was. They shouldn't take her lightly because she's a woman, in fact she should have the right to be, if not more, as intelligent as a man. This brings us to the famous land trade, as a