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Women In Council

Author
Aristophanes
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
1 hour 28 minutes
ISBN
9781802567434
Published
12 July 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Aristophanes
  • women
  • feminism
  • Greek
  • Athens
  • comic
  • comedy
  • humour
  • humorous
  • play

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Athenian women take the assembly. Aristophanes’ Women in Council (Assemblywomen) is Praxagora’s coup: shared goods, shared beds, a utopia that trips on its own joke. Satire of democracy, sex, and the dream of a fair city — croaking with laughter, not a programme. Property in common, husbands in a queue, old men complaining in the street. The jokes are rude; the politics are the joke. Athens imagined as a household, and the household mutinies. 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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