Shores of California Lyrics

Lyric discussion by elms 

Cover art for Shores of California lyrics by Dresden Dolls, The

Love this song. It's obviously about different priorities women and men have in relationships.

Here's a line I don't quite get:

that's the way Aristophanes and Homer wrote the Iliad and Lysistrata

Does this have some deeper meaning, beyond just being another example of how life has been like this since the time of the ancient Greeks?