Tag: Classic Greek Theatre

Withholding Sex the Key to Political Reform?

Filed in National by on April 30, 2009 • 3 Comments

Seems like Kenyan women are recycling a strategy first pioneered in ‘Lysistrata’. In the classic comedy by Aristophanes, first performed in 411 B. C.:  Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands as a means of forcing the men to negotiate a peace, a strategy however that inflames the battle […]

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