Lysistrata is a play by Aristophanes about a woman named Lysistrata who leads the women of Greece in withholding sex from their husbands as a means to end the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. The women deny the men intimacy and humiliate them until the men can no longer take it and agree to sign a peace treaty, ending the long-running conflict. The play comments on themes of women disobeying men, achieving peace, and how women may have more wisdom about ending war despite living in a male-dominated society.