Lysistrata and her political agenda Lysistrata was a story written by Aristophanes around 410 BC and is a humorous tale of how women gain the upper hand over their men and try to end a war . To summarize the story of Lysistrata, she was the wife of someone who was in the war between Sparta and Athens. He devises a ploy to try to end the war between the two cities. She and a group of women abstain from their “feminine duties.” This idea was to manipulate their husbands into signing a peace treaty in exchange for what was missing. This included leaving one's home and settling on the Acropolis and neglecting everything a woman did in her home. The woman neglected wool, seeds, food and even her children. Most importantly, according to the text, when Lysistrata told the women about their new found fort, they all started screaming and telling Lysistrata that she wasn't thinking straight and that they couldn't do it. “Well, then we have to do without sex altogether. Why do you walk away? Where are you going? Why become so pale? Why those tears? Will you do it or not? What does the hesitation mean?" (470) was said by Lysistrata to come up with the plan. This shows that the women were not only led by the men, but were also put in such a state of mind that they did not want to displease them, perhaps they could be afraid to do so.The text makes the reader believe that all women want and love sex with their counterparts, she stood her ground after the whipping of all women and showed how wise she was with her plan women: “If we stay at home made up and powerful, dressed in our most transparent clothes and well shaved, our men will get excited and want to take us; if you don't come to them and leave, they will soon make a truce” (471) Proving that he actually means what he does, some women ask what would happen if they were forced, so Lysistrata tells them to “Give with bad grace ”. what would make them all happy with the outcome. Thus the wise Lysistrata must act as a mother to soldiers who call themselves men. Maybe there was some satire here, that every man needs a mother figure to help him make the right decisions in life. Lysistrata ploys to bring in the statue of a naked female figure to help further her cause (494). It was wise to do this because the men are all irritated by this statue and can't even think straight. So by doing so, he manipulates men into said truce. She tells them both to meet her in friendship and without arguments, basically telling the men not to behave like children. So he goes ahead and says to them, “I am a woman, it is true, but I have a mind; My innate spirit is not bad, and by listening to my father and elders, I have had a good education. (494) She tells them this not only to imply that she is intelligent and wise but insists that it was because of her father and grandfather which implies why she got to where she was. They shouldn't take her lightly because she is a woman, in fact she should have the right to be, if not more, as intelligent as a man. This leads to the famous land trade, as a