![]() Once the war is over, this symbol suggests, they will be able to drink wine and celebrate an end to the war. In this way, the women choose wine as a symbol of the peace and joy they are fighting for. They discuss the fact that often an oath is sworn over animal entrails and real blood, then decide that it would be better to just use wine. The wine over which the women swear their oath of celibacy is a symbol. These raunchy jokes remind the audience time and again that the play is about sex and the attraction between the genders as much as it is a political satire. ![]() Cinesias and the Spartan herald both sport erections when they are onstage. Characters speak suggestively, characterize non-sexual things in sexual terms, and come close to having sex onstage. Aristophanes' text, translated here by Edward Einhorn, is filled with double entendres and bawdy sex jokes that allude to the campaign that Lysistrata has launched to stop the war. A major motif in the play is the use of sexual humor to move the plot along. ![]()
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