Lysistrata (version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Lysistrata (version 2), 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 Lysistrata by Aristophanes. Read in English by a full cast. Lysistrata has had enough. She is tired of the constant war that is ravaging Greece and has come up with a solution: Together with female friends from other Greek cities, she persuades all women of Greece to pledge an oath and refrain from all sexual contact with their husbands and lovers. The idea is that what men really want is sex, and that they are willing to do anything to get it - even abandoning their pride and make peace. And while the Athenian women retreat into the sacred Acropolis, the men gather outside and debate what is to be done... This famous play by Aristophanes, first staged in 411 BCE, sheds a light on the relation of the sexes in Ancient Greece, and is probably the first instance of a War of the Sexes. The translator of this version is unknown, but it is rumored to have been Oscar Wilde. (Summary by Availlle). This is a full cast production of the play.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Lysistrata (version 2)
• Author credits: Aristophanes
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 3
• Listed recording duration: 1:30:19

Catalogue topics

• women
• war
• sex
• athens
• greece
• men
• war of the sexes

Track guide

1. 01 - Scene 1 - in a public square at Athens — 18:20
2. 02 - Scene 2 - before the gates of the Acropolis — 31:37
3. 03 - Scene 3 - within the precincts of the citadel — 40:22

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