Episode 86: When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong (1971) w/ Greeced Lightning Podcast

When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong (1971) is an Italian sex comedy in which cave women of two warring tribes stage a sex strike until their cave men make peace. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it’s a stone-age adaptation of the Ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes. It’s all Greek to us, so we’ve invited Dr. Sara Hales-Brittain and Sam Siegel of the Greeced Lightning podcast to help us understand the erotic chicken cosplay, glory-hole fish emasculation, and petroleum-based conversion therapy. You heard me.

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In this episode:

• Watch When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong on the Internet Archive

• Read Lysistrata by Aristophanes:

• Chi-Raq on Greeced Lightning

• Il Primo Re on Greeced Lightning

• Attila on SotSA

• “Spare me your space-age techno-babble, Attila the Hun!”

• “Chickens don’t clap!”

• Circummingo

• Petronius’ werewolf story

• Lingurium

• Crannogs