Aristophanes most scurrilous play was first performed in Athens around 411 BC. The plot is simple. Lysistrata, frustrated by the many wars Greece wages, gathers her friends, the feisty Kalonika and the very-married Mirrinie to help organise a National Sex Strike. No more sex till we have peace! They camp themselves outside the emblematic Acropolis where they bar all entries and erect a ÔdesexualisedÕ picket line. They will join forces with the strapping Spartan Lampito who orchestrates a similar sex-strike in her homeland. Beardsley’s 1896 line drawings were considered by some as his masterpiece and reproduced faithfully in this privately printed, limited edition, German translation.