Lysistrata
English
Etymology
Ancient Greek Λυσιστράτη (Lusistrátē, “army disbander”)
Proper noun
Lysistrata
- A comedy by Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War by denying men sex.
Derived terms
Translations
Ancient Greek comedy
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Noun
Lysistrata (plural Lysistratas)
- A woman who withholds sex in order to get her way.
- Stan Steiner, quoted in: 1993, Jane Caputi, Gossips, Gorgons and Crones: The Fates of the Earth (page 225)
- Lysistratas among the Indian [Iroquois] women proclaimed a boycott on lovemaking and childbearing.
- 2020, Helen Morales, Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths:
- Despite all this, the Western media framed these women as modern-day Lysistratas.
- Stan Steiner, quoted in: 1993, Jane Caputi, Gossips, Gorgons and Crones: The Fates of the Earth (page 225)
Further reading
- Lysistrata at OneLook Dictionary Search
Lysistrata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λυσιστράτη (Lusistrátē, “army disbander”).
Declension
This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
- Lysistrata in Internetová jazyková příručka
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