First written and performed at the Lenaea Festival in Athens in 411 BCE, Aristophanes’ comedy Lysistrata takes heavy inspiration from the contemporaneous Peloponnesian War to create a satirical and bawdy look at war, gender, and politics. Frustrated by an ongoing conflict between the Spartans and Athenians, the women of Greece, led by the titular Lysistrata, launch a sex strike in hopes of ending the war once and for all.