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Sep 14, 2006 11:56

Real life imitates fiction as the wives and girlfriends of Colombian gangsters stage their own Lysistrata to get their men to give up violence.

In Aristophanes's play, Lysistrata leads the women of Athens and the women of Sparta to force their men to end the Peloponnesian War, by first seizing the city state's financial reserves, then refusing to have sex with them when they return from battle. "Like the heroines of tragedy, Lysistrata is literally a reactionary; she wants to put things back the way they were. To do that, however, she has to act like a revolutionary," says one commentator.
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