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Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes
Narrated by: Marnye Young
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The Peloponnesian War drags on and on with no end in sight, and the tough-minded Lysistrata has had enough. Men! - always making stupid decisions that affect everyone. Women's opinions are never listened to.

Taking matters into her own hands, Lysistrata convenes a meeting of women from warring city-states across Greece and calls for a sex strike. It's a hard sell, but in the end, it is agreed: They will withhold sex until the war is brought to hasty a close.

Playing their part, too, the old women of Athens seize control of the Acropolis - and with it, the treasury - holing up behind it's barred gates and choking off the silver that funds the interminable war.

It's a waiting game, and a difficult one - some of the women are already becoming desperate for sex and deserting the cause. But Lysistrata is determined to stay the course and soon restores discipline. The men can't hold out forever...can they?

First staged in 411 BC, Lysistrata is the bawdy, comic account of one woman's singular mission to end the Peloponnesian War using the only means that seems available to her in a male-dominated world.

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Public Domain (P)2018 Silverton Audio Ancient, Classical & Medieval Literature Classics Collections Drama Fiction Historical Fiction Women's Fiction Ancient History Ancient Greece Greece
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I can't fault the valiant attempt by the actress narrating. She did a good job of different accents and stressing the bawdier parts of the play BUT somehow, the whole production felt quite turgid. It fell really flat with the liberal use of auto tune to give the impression of multiple voices to form the 'chorus' that rendered it skin to a cheap sci-fi production! It set my teeth on edge and I almost gave in to the urge to turn it off and just forget it. I wish I had bought the other title offered here on audible. I really struggled to get to the end of this and I usually love audio books. This is really awful. Give it a miss.

Awful! Chorus scenes with autotuning!

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