Question

Use the passage to answer the question. Now, where is the gentle goddess Peace? . . . Laconians, approach; and you, Athenians, on my other side. Now hearken all! I am but a woman; but I have good common sense; Nature has endowed me with discriminating judgment, which I have yet further developed, thanks to the wise teachings of my father and the elders of the city. First I must bring a reproach against you that applies equally to both sides. At Olympia, and Thermopylae, and Delphi, and a score of other places too numerous to mention, you celebrate before the same altars ceremonies common to all Hellenes; yet you go cutting each other’s throats, and sacking Hellenic cities, when all the while the barbarian yonder is threatening you! This excerpt comes from which individual’s creative works?

Answer 1

Aristophanes’s comedies

Answer 2

This excerpt comes from Aristophanes' comedy called Lysistrata.
Aristophanes was a famous comic playwright in ancient Greece, and this is one of his most famous works. It tells the story of a woman, Lysistrata, who wants to bring the Peloponnesian War to an end by depriving all men of sex, which is the thing they want the most.