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Thesmophoriazūsae
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
Date: 19960101
Author:M. C. HOWATSON and IAN CHILVERS
Thesmophoriazūsae
(‘women celebrating the Thesmophoria’), comedy by Aristophanes produced in 411 BC, probably at the Dionysia.The women are about to celebrate their private festival, the Thesmophoria (from which men are excluded). Euripides has learnt that, since his portrayal of legendary wicked women in his tragedies has given all women a bad name, they intend to plot his death. Taking an elderly kinsman with him he tries to persuade the effeminate tragic poet Agathon to disguise himself as a woman, attend the rites, and plead the cause of Euripides. Agathon ...
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