Lysistrata: A Scenario in 9 Etchings for Artistophanes' "Lysistrata"

 

Wilhelm Paul Eberhard Eggers

  1939 - 2004 (biography)

1971  

color aquatints and etchings 

16 11/16 x 13 5/8" platemark 

pencil, lower center 

47/100 plus proofs 

pencil numbered, dated and each plate numbered 1 - 9 beneath image. 

 

heavy sheet of antique-white wove Zerkall Echt Butten. 

published 

Aquarius Press, 1970 

MEJA147 

$1,800.00 

Lysistrata is a comedy by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace — a strategy, however, that inflames the battle between the sexes. The play is notable for being an early exposé of sexual relations in a male-dominated society. The dramatic structure represents a shift away from the conventions of Old Comedy, a trend typical of the author's career. It was produced in the same year as Thesmophoriazusae, another play with a focus on gender-based issues, just two years after Athens' catastrophic defeat in the Sicilian Expedition.