Medea and Lysistrata comparison

e anything to say to her, and she spends her days consulting oracles that ever send her a husband."(Page 27) With these lines Lysistrata expresses the same ideals as Medea though they are projected differently. Medea says that women need to get married but she didn't give any reason why there is such a need, while Lysistrata explains instead the reasons for why women need husbands so that they don't grow lonely and in grief.
             In Lysistrata and Medea women are pictured like fervent creatures driven only by love with no logic whatsoever. Lysistrata says: "Oh, wanton, vicious sex! The poets have done well to make tragedies upon us; we are good for nothing then but love and lewdness!&
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