<P>Aristophanes' comic plays, <i>Lysistrata, Women at the Thesmophoria</i> and <i>Assemblywomen</i> contain the earliest portrayals of actual women in the European literary tradition, and are the only such portrayals that survive from classical Athens. These plays provide a unique glimpse of women n ...
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The women of Athens concoct a dating scheme: to infiltrate the male-dominated Assembly disguised as men and to vote themselves into power, after which they will overturn the old laws and inaugurate a new society where all are equal and where property - sex, too! - is shared. This new translation by ...
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