Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature in general. It merits a much more extensive commentary than it has so far received, for the establishment of the text itself has rested for over a century on collations ...
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<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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