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Their vitality and importance were not considered significant. They were treated not better than the animals.

In those days women were restricted and repressed in many ways. Aristophanes’ another play where the female was presented with the main role was Thesmophoriazousai. The role of the female was played by the male characters in the play in those days. The play Lysistrata is praised for the role given to the female character as a chief protagonist when there was no evidence of women attending Athenian Theatre. Some critics consider it his greatest work. Lysistrata, the major female protagonist, brings the plan among the Greek women to hold a sex strike as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace.