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PUBLISHED
[United States]: Neeland Media LLC , 2014
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Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781420900392 (electronic bk.) MWT11907260, 1420900390 (electronic bk.) 11907260
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
Like the 'Lysistrata,' the 'Thesmophoriazusae, or Women's Festival,' and the next following play, the 'Ecclesiazusae, or Women in Council' are comedies in which the fair sex play a great part. In 'The Thesmophoriazusae' Euripides is summoned as a notorious woman-hater and detractor of the female sex to appear for trial and judgment before the women of Athens assembled to celebrate the Thesmophoria, a festival held in honour of the goddesses Demeter and Persephone, from which men were rigidly excluded
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