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In the play Lysistrata by the dramatist Aristophanes, war is created by the women of Athens therefore proving Margaret Mead essay '"'Warfare is only an invention-not a biological necessity'"'. Lysistrata is based around women practicing abstinence until the men come home from war. War is a state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties. In Meade"'"s essay war is considered to be invented not biological. War is not a natural occurrence; it is a discovery that keeps modernizing itself as time goes on.
In the essay '"'Warfare is only an invention-not a biological necessity'"' Mead emphasizes the point that man was not born with the need to War. She states '"'warfare of this sort is an invention like any other of the inventions in terms we order our lives'"' (Mead 20). This is made clear by the civilizations that she uses as examples who do not know what war is. '"'Does not the absence of war among the Eskimos, just go to confirm......

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