Why Are Ancient Greek Phalluses Funny?

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2025-10-17 16:06:29

Ancient Athenian playwrights often made people laugh in ways we still do today, referencing genitals, sex, and obscenity, mocking and shaming regular people and politicians, and using exaggeration and unexpected events to surprise audiences. The playwright Aristophanes’s comedy Lysistrata, recently reinvented as LIZAstrata and running through October 2, 2021 at the Getty Villa, provides...

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