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Women In Council

Author
Aristophanes
Series
Greek Comedy
Language
English
Length
66 pages
ISBN
9781911535928
Published
16 November 2016
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Aristophanes
  • women
  • feminism
  • Greek
  • Athens
  • comic
  • comedy
  • humour
  • humorous
  • play

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Description

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. Athens imagined as a household, and the household mutinies.

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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