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The Thesmophoriazusae

Author
Aristophanes
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
1 hour 29 minutes
ISBN
9781802567397
Published
9 July 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Aristophanes
  • women
  • feminism
  • Greek
  • Athens
  • comic
  • comedy
  • humour
  • humorous
  • play

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Description

Euripides fears the women at the Thesmophoria. Aristophanes sends a kinsman in a dress; the festival bites back. Thesmophoriazusae is drag, parody, and a poet on trial for his plots. Athens laughing at tragedy, and at men. A razor, a hymn, Euripides in a panic. The women have a festival and a verdict. Aristophanes parodying tragedy while the city watches men try on a fear of women. A kinsman in a dress, a razor, Euripides panicking at a women’s festival. Read in English, unabridged.

Author

Aristophanes was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and are used to define it. Also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy, Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author.

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