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Works of Aristophanes: The Thesmophiazusae (411 B.C.)
From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Aristophanes
Aristophanes
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Thesmophiazusae (411 B.C.)
Background:
"The Women Celebrating the Thesmophoria" was produced at the Festival of
the Great Dionysia, two months after Lysistrata. The Thesmophoria is a
festival dedicated to Demeter, a vegetation goddess, celebrated in autumn by
the women. The central theme of the play is a ridicule of Euripides, at whom
Aristophanes had poked occasional gibes during his other plays. The precise
motivation of this ridicule is Euripides' misogyny.
Characters:
Euripides The tragedian.
Mnesilochus Euripides' father-in-law.
Agathon A homosexual ...
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