- I can understand Sparta's War Is Glorious mindset committing them to the war and not caring that they might die. But for Athens, sexual frustration is more convincing than the possibility of death? What?
- For Athens it was less War is Glorious and more War is Profitable. The poorer citizens — who, since Athens was a democracy, had the vote — liked war because it opened up good jobs like members of a rowing crew (no Slave Galleys here). So they kept voting for the continuation of the war. Lysistrata represents Aristophanes' annoyance with the situation. He has the war end because an upper-class woman subverts democracy, gets the right people into the same room, and uses the power of sexual frustration to make them simply come to terms.
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