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Detailed explanation-1: -The ancient Greek play, Lysistrata tells the story of women who stop war by witholding sex from their husbands until they agree to lay down their arms. NPR’s Margot Adler reports on some of those performances and the motives of the organizers.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lysistrata presents the provocative fantasy that war could be stopped by the women through denying sex to the combatants until peace is secured. Aristophanes mounts his case in Lysistrata through paradox and inversion. It is the only extant ancient Greek comedy in which women take center stage and control the action.

Detailed explanation-3: -Aristophanes, often referred to as the Father of Comedy, wrote the world’s earliest surviving comic dramas.

Detailed explanation-4: -Aristophanes and Greek Theater. Lysistrata is one of the best-known of the ancient Greek comedies. It relates the story of Lysistrata, an Athenian woman who is determined to end the Peloponnesian War. She does so by recruiting the women of both Sparta and Athens, the main rivals in the war, to her cause.