At the meeting, Lysistrata announces her plan: the women should all refuse to have sex with their husbands until their husbands end the war. In attendance at the meeting are women from Athens and other cities, including Sparta. The play begins on the day of a meeting organized by Lysistrata. That, at least, is the opinion of Lysistrata, a middle-class housewife from Athens. Although the war has been going on for years, things have recently taken a bad turn for Athens: they suffered a serious defeat in Sicily just two years before. It's 411BCE and Athens is locked in the grip of a terrible war with Sparta.
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