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Thomas could have been much more in-depth and comprehensive in his approach, but perhaps felt that it was not his duty to include to much in his writings. It seems as if he opted to travel the road less traveled by allowing the reader to come to his/her own conclusion deciding the effectiveness of Aristophane and Lysistrata.

Crofts does inform the reader that the play "is coarse and blunt in its expression," (v) yet the simplistic form adapted by Aristophane made the play simpler in its approach and left the reader with a pleasant taste in the mouth, rather than a taste of 'having to wash' one might normally feel based on the sexuality that is quite blatant in the play. Thomas Crofts makes the point that the type of language contained in the play "corresponds to the bluntness, the casualness of the deaths that overtook so many Athenian men in those war-torn days." (v) I agree with Croft's assessment and might even reiterate the fact that war does make strange bedfellows, and many times those bedfellows are definitely not the little ladies from back home. Perhaps that is what Aristophanes meant when he wrote of the women being strongest, the bravest and the boldest.

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One character in the play even talked to the women in the manner of an equal saying, "Hail, boldest and bravest of womankind." (48)

Of course, it could be that the man was only conciliatory due to his discomfit. It would be interesting to see if the women of today's world would do the same in order to stop a war, or would they be like some of the women who cried out upon hearing the proposal, "Anything, anything but that!" (8)

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