The Athenian woman's contribution to her polis was to be a good mother and wife. But the Peloponnesian war robbed women of these contributions by stealing her husbands and sons, and shipping them off to foreign lands, often never to return. When purposing her idea to the women of Greece, Lysistrata asks of them, "Don't you feel sad and sorry because the fathers of your children are far away from you with the army? For I'll wager there is not one of you whose husband is not abroad at this moment...
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Though they were only women, with limited power in Athens, Lysistrata devised a plan to use what little power they had. When asked by her friend Cleonice, "But how should women perform so wise and glorious an achievement, we women who dwell in the retirement of the household, clad in diaphanous garments of yellow silk and long flowering gowns, decked out with flowers and shot with dainty little slippers?" Lysistrata replied, "Ah, but those are the very sheet-anchors of our salvation...
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