Lysistrata Characters

Lysistrata was the first ever female hero of an Ancient Greek comedy. Way to break that glass ceiling, Lysistrata! Because of this trail-blazing, it's not surprising that she's a pretty extraordina...

Calonice is Lysistrata's neighbor, and just like Lysistrata, Calonice is respectable middle-class housewife. Think of her as the Ethel Mertz to Lysistrata's Lucy Ricardo. At the beginning of the pl...

Myrrhine first makes her appearance on the scene near the beginning of the play, when she comes to Lysistrata's meeting of the women of Greece. Myrrhine is a local gal—a young housewife from Athe...

Lampito is a pretty one-dimensional character, and that one dimension is mostly an ethnic stereotype (ugh: the worst kind of stereotypes). Lampito shows up on the scene during Lysistrata's meaning...

The Magistrate makes his first appearance on the scene when he comes to investigate the hullabaloo going on in the Acropolis. What he finds, of course, is that the women have taken over the Acropol...

Cinesias is the husband of Myrrhine, one of the women taking part in Lysistrata's sex-strike. And he is suffering in a big way because of the strike. It's really hard for him to handle. He's rigid...

The Chorus of Old Men makes its first appearance near the beginning of the play, when its members shuffle their way up to the Acropolis, carrying fire to smoke the women out of their hideout. They...

The Chorus of Old Women represents the women Lysistrata sent to take over the Acropolis. Whether because Ancient Athenian society did not see older women as sexual beings, or because their husbands...