Additionally, it marked a departure from some of the conventions of Old Comedy that defined Aristophanes' career in particular, its structure was a break from tradition. The play is cited as one of the first plays to deal with the theme of female sexuality and marital subjugation within the household, and for this reason, many consider it a feminist text. The title character, Lysistrata, manages to convince the women of Athens to refuse to have sex with their husbands until the men agree to stop the war. The play itself centers on the beginnings of this war and the efforts of a group of women to convince their husbands to come to a truce with the other nation and create peace. Lysistrata, a comedy by Athens' greatest comedic writer, Aristophanes, debuted in Athens in the year 411 BCE, around the time when the Peloponnesian War was just beginning.
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