Aristophanes : women in the assembly /
"This is the first book for a general audience about Women in the Assembly (Ekklesiazousai), whose central themes - gender, politics, theatre - still resonate today. Fed up with Athens' political dysfunction and involvement in yet another war against Sparta, the women of the city don ridic...
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2026.
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| Series: | Bloomsbury ancient comedy companions.
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Table of Contents:
- Electing Women in the Assembly
- Praxagora's plan enacted: metatheatre, disguise, and gender
- The consequences of success: utopia questioned and affirmed
- Re-electing Women in the Assembly: reperformance
- Appendix 1: textual transmission of Women in the Assembly
- Appendix 2: Translation of selected scholia on Women in the Assembly