La festa delle donne

Eurípides tem conhecimento que durante uma celebração em honra das Deusas Tesmóforias (Deméter e Perséfone) irá haver uma conspiração das mulheres contra ele — porque nas suas tragédias diz mal delas. Como esse festival é interdito a homens, convence um parente a disfarçar-se de mulher para dar uma 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

Let me not hear it said that one could not laugh at antique pieces! Aristophanes, the father of the Comedy, proves to us that laughter is timeless and that the current generation can be sensitive to it while acquiring a culture of ancient Greece. Defender of the people, politician, he knows how to m Leggi tutto

Funny, the argument is quite reminiscent of that scandal in Rome centuries later, when Clodius Pulcher got this mad idea to disguise himself as a woman to intrude into the females-only Bona Dea festival, that got him in hot water and his lover Pompeia Sulla sent back in disgrace and divorced by Caes Leggi tutto

Boy, I'm not sure why Aristophanes satirized Euripides so much, but I can say one thing: it's so funny when he does. In this play (which has a super-complicated, super-long title...), Euripides faces conviction from a group of disgruntled women because they don't like Euripides' protrayal of women i 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

Thesmophoriazusae by Aristophanes In ancient Greece, the women have a celebration – Thesmophoria. And male characters wish to and make the necessary adaptations to attend, with funny results…at times. I am not taken aback by this play, but I need to write down that I have been trying it. In fact, before Leggi tutto

This is easily the most entertaining Aristophanes play that I've read. Consistently funny, and surprisingly more timeless compared to his political works. The basic plot is that Euripides is going to be tried by a group of disgruntled females because they feel he demeans them in his plays. His solut Leggi tutto