Please Don't Fly Away Little Birdie

Lysistrata uses a very interesting metaphor to explain to the women how they need to stick together and not break the vow they have made to remain abstinent until their husbands leave the war and make peace. When the women grow weak and try to leave the Akropolis for various ridiculous excuses to go home and have sex with their husbands, Lysistrata reads to them the scroll, that describes the women as a flock of birds. When I first heard this metaphor, I pictured the birds flying together in formation. the bird in the front breaks the wind so has the most difficult job of flying against the wind and leading the other birds. This bird is Lysistrata, leading the way for the rest of the birds to follow, hopefully making the process a little more easy. The scroll reported that if a bird or woman should dissolve their flock the other women for a perch or a man, that she would be known as the most lewd, the most perverted bird. Therefore this would hopefully encourage the women to hang in there for the cause because they would not want to be the woman to break the formation and be considered the pervert or undesired woman who lacks self control.