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Lysistrata audiobook

  • By: Aristophanes
  • Narrator: Marnye Young
  • Category: Ancient & Classical, Drama
  • Length: 1 hours 52 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2018
  • Language: English
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Lysistrata Audiobook Summary

The Peloponnesian War drags on and on with no end in sight, and the tough-minded Lysistrata has had enough. Men!–always making stupid decisions that affect everyone. Women’s opinions are never listened to.

Taking matters into her own hands, Lysistrata convenes a meeting of women from warring city-states across Greece and calls for a sex strike. It’s a hard sell, but in the end it is agreed: they will withhold sex until the war is brought to hasty a close.

Playing their part too, the old women of Athens seize control of the Acropolis–and with it, the treasury–holing up behind it’s barred gates and choking off the silver that funds the interminable war.

It’s a waiting game, and a difficult one–some of the women are already becoming desperate for sex and deserting the cause. But Lysistrata is determined to stay the course and soon restores discipline. The men can’t hold out forever … can they?

First staged in 411 BCE, Lysistrata is the bawdy, comic account of one woman’s singular mission to end the Peloponnesian War using the only means that seems available to her in a male-dominated world.

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Lysistrata Audiobook Narrator

Marnye Young is the narrator of Lysistrata audiobook that was written by Aristophanes

Marnye Young is an award-winning narrator for New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors. She is a Yale MFA grad, SAG-AFTRA voice stage and screen actor who has spent her life in the South, Midwest, and North. She has been reviewed for her impeccable comic timing as well as her ability to make you cry, and do accents. When she isn’t narrating she’s writing a comical blog about her identical twins, fishing, following NASCAR, volunteering and of course “mom”ing, which includes raising a few chickens. She also volunteers to broadcast for CRIS Radio and Talking Information center, two non-profit organizations that serve people who are blind or otherwise unable to read due to other disabilities. Her favorite literary character is Sherlock Holmes.

About the Author(s) of Lysistrata

Aristophanes is the author of Lysistrata

Lysistrata Full Details

Narrator Marnye Young
Length 1 hours 52 minutes
Author Aristophanes
Category
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Release date March 29, 2024
ISBN 9781982637361

Subjects

The publisher of the Lysistrata is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Ancient & Classical, Drama

Additional info

The publisher of the Lysistrata is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Silverton Agency. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781982637361.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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