Lysistrata.

     In Aristophanes’ comedy, produced in the spring of 411 BCE, Lysistrata (“dismisser of armies”) is an Athenian woman who negotiates an end to the war between her polis (city-state) and Sparta. She accomplishes this by persuading the other Athenian women to refuse to have sex with their husbands until peace is achieved. The women also take possession of the Acropolis and the treasury in the Parthenon. With support from the women of Sparta and other enemy states, they successfully force a conclusion to the war.