... Greece." Calonice justifiably responds with cynicism "How can women achieve anything so grand or noble?" Calonice feels that women don't have the ability to do anything, because they spend their time "at home looking pretty, wearing saffron gowns and make up and Cimberic shifts and giant slippers" and she is right to believe this because up until Lysistrata's plan is introduces, that is all the women spend their time doing. They have no experience in the political matters of war; they would have no experience fighting or arguing their case, especially against the men who spent their lives doing exactly that. This is justifiable in reality because the women's intelligence was expected to be far inferior to the men's as they weren't given the opportunity of education. Learning, reading and writing were jobs left to the men folk. Indeed the only thing women were brought up to be capable of, ...

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