Justice In Lysistrata

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Other Greek literature, such as plays and histories, similarly contain little development of the idea of justice in relation to war. The same basic ideas exhibited by Homer are often developed and relayed by them. In his play Lysistrata, for instance, Aristophanes tells a story in which the women of Greece decide to withhold sex from their husbands if their husbands do not put an end to war.
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