Lysistrata 8E

Everyone has been talking about the brains versus brawn debate so I figured I would give my two cents. The only person that actually has any brains in this would be Lysistrata, although perhaps her lack of contact with her husband has strengthened her more intellectual side. The rest of the Greeks are not able to actually resist temptation throughout the entirety of the novel, at least not against there own will. The men had to deal with their uncontrollable erections on their own because the women were being housed in the Akropolis, but I was still fairly disappointed that one of the women even went so far as to actually stick the helmet of the goddess Athena under her dress in the pretense of being with child just to sneak off and have sex with her husband. Also, the reasoning of the other women in that the chickens were going to get loose out of their area and the looming being unwoven just strengthened the idea that it was all women cared about. Putting this under a feminist lens, th;e women did not necessarily come out as the more brainy of the two sexes in this play.