Lysistrata: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Lysistrata, credited to Aristophanes, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Arisophanes, by Lysistrata. Read by a group of college students First performed in classical Athens c. 411 B.C.E., Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata” is the original battle of the sexes. One woman, Lysistrata, brings together the women of all Greece, exhorting them to withhold sexual contact from all men in order that they negotiate a treaty. Double entendres abound as men of Greece attempt to keep Lysistrata and her prurient gang from putting an end to the Peloponnesian war. Notably risqué, this comic drama sheds light on gender relations in ancient Athens Translator is not named, but Jack Lindsay is commentator and Norman Lindsay is the illustrator.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Lysistrata
• Author credits: Aristophanes
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 2
• Listed recording duration: 1:17:53

Catalogue topics

• LibiVox
• Drama
• Athens
• Women
• Pelopennesian War

Track guide

1. 1 - Part 1 — 50:11
2. 2 - Part 2 — 27:44

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Source and rights

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