Being cool

Since the beginning of time the treatment of women has improved

dramatically. In the earliest of times women were mere slaves to men. Today

women are near equals in almost all fields. In 411 B.C., when Lysistrata was

written, men had many stunning advantages to that of their female counterparts.

Although women's rights between 30 and 100 A.D., the time of the New Testament,

were still not what they are today, the treatment of women was far better.

Overall, the equality of women in the New Testament exceeds that of the women in

Lysistrata in three major ways: physical mobility, society's view of women's

nature, and women's public legal rights.



Albeit in Lysistrata the women were shown as revolutionaries rising up

against the men, women in classical Greece were never like that. Aristophanes

created the play as a comedy, showing how the world might be in the times of the

Peloponesian war if women tried to do something. It was the women'...