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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.
Source Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley to Lysistrata, 1896
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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