Spike Lee’s new film Chi-Raq is a modern-day retelling of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, an ancient Greek comedy that was first performed in 411 BCE and tells the story of one woman’s attempt to end the Peloponnesian War. She does this by convincing the women of Athens and Sparta to withhold sex from their lovers until the […]
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Stereogum - 4 Dec 2015 23:35
Spike Lee’s new film Chi-Raq is a modern-day retelling of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, an ancient Greek comedy that was first performed in 411 BCE and tells the story of one woman’s attempt to end the Peloponnesian War. She does this by convincing the women of Athens and Sparta to withhold sex from their lovers until the […]
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