Hello Helen,

I am glad that you enjoyed my argument to preserve Lysistrata.

Lysistrata has been performed many times, and is still popular in modern day theatre. The play was well received in Athens. It's humor was appreciated in it's time because of it's mentioning of well known names of local officials, heroes, and tyrants. The actors in the play were all equipped with a large phallus, that would raise straight up and lower depending on the general mood of the scene or desires that were being denied.  This grotesque detail was extremely funny and expected then; this most likely provokes much laughter today mixed with offense.