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“Lysistrata–more than a play”–Daily Metta

September 24: “I want women to learn the primary right of resistance.” –Gandhi (Harijan, September  12, 1936) Greek comic poet Aristophanes is probably most famous for his play Lysistrata, a story about war and the women who resisted it. How did they do it?  By withholding sexual privileges from their husbands until reconciliation between Sparta… read more