🧙♀️The use of staffs, swords, and other props in Lysistrata symbolizes power and weakness, challenging traditional gender dynamics.
🤔Phallic imagery, such as prop phalluses, is used to depict male characters in a ridiculous light, undermining their power.
🍷Symbols like bowls and wine represent women's power and agency, as they appropriate and transform male symbols of power.
🏛️The Acropolis, including the Parthenon, symbolizes Athenian cultural and financial power, as well as the ideal household in Athens.
🚺The play explores the themes of power, gender dynamics, and societal transformation, challenging traditional norms.