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Classical Drama
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This is, no doubt, more Aristophanic
jibing at Euripides, who had recently produced a play called Ion in which
the god Apollo ravishes a woman in this very cave. Aristophanes probably presumed
his audience would infer that Cinesias got the idea to have sex with his wife
in this cave from Euripides' play. But note that Aristophanes reverses the genders.
In Lysistrata, the female uses the cave to best the male.
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