Picture No | 10500144 |
Date | 1896 |
Description | Lysistrata by Aubrey Beardsley |
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An illustration by Aubrey Beardsley to the play Lysistrata by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. In the play, Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace in the Peloponnesian War.
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Source | Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley to Lysistrata, 1896 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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