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Thesmophoriazusae is a comedy that satirizes Athenian society, gender roles, and the works of the tragedian Euripides. During the Thesmophoria festival, the women of Athens plot revenge against Euripides, angered by his unflattering portrayals of them in his tragedies. Euripides' relative, Mnesiloch Leggi tutto

Secret Women's Business 14 June 2012 I actually quite like Aristophanes, not because he is a brilliant playwright, though since eleven of his works have survived 2500 years I really do not think that I am in a position to comment on his ability. Obviously there is a reason, and probably a good reaso Leggi tutto

Aristophanes uses the plot of this play to make fun of his contemporary playwright, Euripides. The play begins with Euripides afraid for his life. He has received word that the women of Athens plan to have a meeting in order to decide how they can get vengeance for the way the female sex has been po Leggi tutto

LAS TESMOFORIANTES o LAS FIESTAS DE CERES Y PROSERPINA de Aristófanes "MUJER PRIMERA: ¿Qué ultrajes hay que no nos prodigue?... Nos llama adúlteras, desenvueltas, borrachas, traidoras, charlatanas, inútiles para nada de provecho, peste de los hombres; con lo cual cuando nuestros maridos vuelven del t Leggi tutto

Read this after reading an article in The New York Review of Books which posited that Euripides wrote The Bacchae as a response to this play. The usual sequence is that the comic writer writes his comedy as a satire of an existing tragedy. After reading this play again, I can definitely see where

In this play, Aristophanes demonstrates how the very homoerotic society of Athens, Greece managed to tolerate and even encourage fornication between men, yet reviled homosexuality and resented femininity as a concept in both men and women. It’s insane to me that they hated women so much that they be Leggi tutto