Ecclesiazusae

Ecclesiazusae
ISBN-10
0856687081
ISBN-13
9780856687082
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
265
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Author
Aristophanes

Description

Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and farce, the earliest surviving work in the western Utopian tradition, and the source of a blueprint for a communist society on which Plato may well have drawn in his Republic.

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