Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata” and the Two Acropolis Priestesses

Scholarship on Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata” has become almost unanimously aligned in various degrees of support of a proposal made by David M. Lewis in 1955 that we should identify Aristophanes’ character, Lysistrata, with Lysimache, the priestess of Athena Polias when the play was produced in 411 BCE...

The International Journal of Literary Humanities

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