Why does lysistrata want to end the war

Lysitrata; That we might make the money safe, and that you might not fight on account of it. For in order that Pisander might be able to steal, and those who aim at offices, they were always stirring up some commotion.

Therefore let them do whatever they please, for that matter! When Lysistrata enters, the men threaten to arrest her, but she warns them that there are many battalions of women ready to fight them with various kitchen items. Lysistrata tells the magistrate that the women are sick of listening to their husbands make mistakes and want to be able to have an effect on policy.

In Scene 3, Lysistrata tells the women that she is dismayed because some of them are wanting to have sex. As women sneak out, she sends them back into the Acropolis. Later, Cinesias visits looking for Myrrhina , his wife. Lysistrata advises Myrrhina to seduce Cinesias well, but then refuse to satisfy him sexually.

She does as Lysistrata advises, and tortures her husband with various seductions, but never lets him consummate. Lysistrata and the Athenian women go to join the other women on the Acropolis. The foreign women go back to their home cities. The Chorus of Men shows up; basically this is a bunch of old Athenian geezers. They have come with fire to smoke the women out of the Acropolis. In no time, however, the Chorus of Women shows up carrying buckets of water.

Lysistrata comes out of the Acropolis and explains what she's doing. After a testy exchange, the humiliated Magistrate runs off to complain to the other magistrates.

Lysistrata and the women go back into the Acropolis, leaving the Men's Chorus and Women's Chorus to annoy and insult each other through song and dance. Then Lysistrata reemerges from the Acropolis to complain that the women are all trying to run off and have sex with their husbands; we see her catch three women in the act. We're clutching our pearls over here.

After another bout of conflict between the Men's Chorus and the Women's Chorus, the women see a man approaching the Acropolis, visibly aroused. It's Cinesias, the husband of Myrrhine, one of the women on the sex-strike. The Chorus of Old Women is victorious in the contest between the choruses and triumphantly pours the jugs of water over the heads of the men. The Commissioner, an appointed magistrate, comes to the Akropolis seeking funds for the naval ships. The Commissioner is surprised to find the women at the Akropolis and orders his policemen to arrest Lysistrata and the other women.

In a humorous battle, that involves little physical contact, the policemen are scared off. The Commissioner takes the opportunity to tell the men of Athens that they have been too generous and allowed too much freedom with the women of the city.

As the policemen run off, the Commissioner and Lysistrata are left to argue about the Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata argues that the War is a concern for women especially and she adds her two cents as to how the city should be run, drawing an elaborate analogy to show that Athens should be structured as a woman would spin wool.

Lysistrata tells the Commissioner that war is a concern of women because women have sacrificed greatly for it—women have given their husbands and their sons to the effort. Lysistrata adds that it is now difficult for a woman to find a husband.

The women mockingly dress the Commissioner as a woman. The next day, or perhaps some considerable time afterwards, the sex-strike devised at the beginning of the text, begins to take effect on the men.