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Subject(s)

• Aristophanes—Characters—Women [Browse]
• Greek drama (Comedy)—History and criticism [Browse]
• Women and literature—Greece [Browse]
• Greece—Civilization [Browse]
• Greece—History [Browse]

Series

• Routledge revivals. [More in this series]
• Routledge Revivals

Summary note

"Aristophanes and Women, first published in 1993, investigates the workings of the great Athenian comedians women plays in an attempt to discern why they were in fact probably quite funny to their original audiences. It is argued that modern students, scholars, and dramatists need to consider much more closely the conditions of the plays ancient productions when evaluating their ostensible themes. Three plays are focused upon: Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, and Ecclesiazusae. All seem to speak quite eloquently to contemporary concerns about womens rights, the value of womens work, and the relationships between women and war, literary representation and politics. On the one hand, Professor Taaffe tries to retrieve what an ancient Athenian audience may have l appreciated about these plays and what their central theses may have meant within that culture. On the other hand, Aristophanes is discussed from the perspective of a late twentieth-century, specifically female, reader."--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• chapter Introduction
• chapter 1 THE REPRESENTATION OF FEMALE FIGURES INARISTOPHANES’ PLAYS BEFORE 411 bce
• chapter 2 WOMEN AS WOMEN, MEN AS MEN: LYSISTRATA
• chapter 3 MEN AS WOMEN: THESMOPHORIA^USAE
• chapter 4 WOMEN AS MEN: ECCLESIAZUSAE
• chapter 5 THE LEGACY OF ARISTOPHANES’ WOMEN.

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ISBN

• 1-138-01859-7
• 1-317-70015-5
• 1-317-70014-7

OCLC

1027745370

Doi

• 10.4324/9781315779669

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