Tag Archives: Lysistrata

How Quixote Hones Problem-Solving Skills

By Robin Bates | Published: April 10, 2024

Works that employ meta-fiction to break down the boundaries between the real and the fantastical teach us how to think outside the box.

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Which Shakespeare Character Is Trump?

By Robin Bates | Published: January 2, 2019

Wednesday It’s satisfying to see national pundits take a page out of Better Living through Beowulf and turn to the classics to understand Donald Trump. Okay, so NeverTrumper conservative Bret Stephens has probably never read this blog, but we both recognize how literature deepens our understanding of the world, including American politics. I particularly appreciate […]

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Life Imitates Aristophanes in Colombia

By Robin Bates | Published: August 10, 2011

In Aristophanes’ great anti-war comedy, the women of Greece, led by Lysistrata, stage a sex strike, which gives them the leverage they need to end the Peloponnesian War. Currently there is a sex strike underway in a remote village in Columbia.

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