Scene Overviews

Scene Overviews

1. Prologe

   • Scene between the women
   • Lysistrata sets out her plan
   • The women take the secret oath to abstain from sex

2. Parados

   • Entrance of the chorus of old men
   • The old men tried to light a fire outside the acropolis, to smoke out lysistrata and her compaints
   • Entrance of the chorus of the old women
   • They manage to pour water over the men and there oyre

3. Agon

   • The angry magistrate confirs with lysistrata to regain control of the acropolis
   • He looses the argument and looses his dignity when the women dress him as a corpse

4. Scene A

   • Some of the women are weakening and lysistrata struggles to prevent three of the women from returning to there husbands

5. Chrous

   • The old men and old women exchange tales and further insults with each other

6. Scene B

   • Cinesias appears with his phallus fully erected and is teased by his wife myhrrine
   • The old men sympies with cinesias
   • A spartan heraid comes to announce that they want to come make peace because, like the athenians, they are all suffering from sexual fustration

7. Reconciliation Scene

   • Deledation of the atenian and spartan leader's each with hard phallus meet to make peace
   • Lysistrata acts as an arbitrator and leads both sides off to sign the tretary and the women entertain them

8. Komos

   • After a short interlude some drunken athenins appear to say what a wonderful party they have had with the spartians
   • They are joined by some drunken spartains and there leader's sing a song with them
   • Lysistrata enters to return the wives to there husbands
   • They play ends with songs and dances as the celebrations to ever lasting peace and joy