One of the few extant plays by the Ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes, the Lysistrata (literally "Army disbander") details how the women of Greece start withholding connubial favors from their husbands in an attempt to bring about a peaceful end to the Peloponnesian War.
Lysistrata was performed in Athens in 411 BC, as the city-state was in the 20th year of its war against Sparta, and losing badly. And yet the ancient Athenians celebrated Aristophanes' antiwar play. The Greek military junta that took power in 1967? Not so much.
