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START: I doubt if I have any hope Of...

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Lysistrata

Aristophanes

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Mature Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act 1
Time & Place
Athens, Ancient Greece, 411 BC
Length
Medium
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)

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START: I doubt if I have any hope
Of hauling thee logs up the slope.
My legs they are wonky,
I haven’t a donkey,
[... …]
END: Our Lady of Victory, be with us now, and may we set up a trophy to thee when we have conquered the audacious attempt of the women to occupy thy holy Acropolis.

Aristophanes; Alan H. Sommerstein,_ Lysistrata/The Acharnians/The Clouds_, Penguin Classics, 1973, pp.191-192.

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