Friday, October 21, 2011

Lysistrata Pages 215-219 [9/22/2011]

Today I read pages 215-219 of Lysistrata. On page 215 you can tell that the men are getting very sexually frustrated. After Myrrhine leaves her husband, Kinesias, after teasing him and not getting him off, Kinesias says,

"Now what shall I do? Whom shall I screw?

The mens leader then responds with,

"What kidney could bear it,
what soul, what balls,
what loins, what crotch,
thus stretched on the rack
and deprived of a morning fuck?"

Kinesias even goes on to say that he wants there to be a huge tornado that sweeps Myrrhine up, twirls her into the sky, and then lets go of her, and as she falls back down to earth Kinesias wants her to land right on his penis.

The men are all getting very sexually frustrated. On the bottom of page 215, Herald, who is a Spartan, enters and asks Kinesias where the Senate of Athens or the Prytanies are. At first Kinesias thought the Spartan was hiding a spear in his clothes. He soon finds out that the Spartan women are also not having sex with there husbands and Herald was actually trying to hide his hard-on.

The Athenians and the Spartans both arranged for ambassadors to negotiate a treaty. They invite lysistrata to there meeting because they know that she's the one in control of everything. Lysistrata talked to the Athenians and Spartans and basically said, how could you be at war when both of you have helped each other out in a huge way? You have no reason to fight.
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