SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literature: Aristophanes

-- »Aristophanes (c. 446 - c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion (Latin: Cydathenaeum), was a comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These provide the most valuable examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are used to define it, along with fragments from dozens of lost plays by Aristophanes and his contemporaries.« -- More information: Wikipedia

-- »Assemblywomen (Ekklesiazousai; also translated as, Congresswomen, Women in Parliament, Women in Power, and A Parliament of Women) is a comedy written by the Greek playwright Aristophanes in 391 BC. The play invents a scenario where the women of Athens assume control of the government and institute reforms that ban private wealth and enforce sexual equity for the old and unattractive. In addition to Aristophanes' political and social satire, derives its comedy through sexual and scatological humor. The play aimed to criticize the Athenian government at the time.« -- More information: Wikipedia

-- »Thesmophoriazusae (Thesmophoriazousai, meaning Women Celebrating the Festival of the Thesmophoria), or Women at the Thesmophoria (sometimes also called The Poet and the Women), is one of eleven surviving plays by Aristophanes. It was first produced in 411 BC, probably at the City Dionysia. The play's focuses include the subversive role of women in a male-dominated society; the vanity of contemporary poets, such as the tragic playwrights Euripides and Agathon; and the shameless, enterprising vulgarity of an ordinary Athenian, as represented in this play by the protagonist, Mnesilochus. The work is also notable for Aristophanes' free adaptation of key structural elements of Old Comedy and for the absence of the anti-populist and anti-war comments that pepper his earlier work.« -- More information: Wikipedia

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I. Author Index

[Info] Robson, James. »Fantastic sex: Fantasies of sexual assault in Aristophanes.« Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World. Edited Mark Masterson et al. New York 2015.

II. Speaker Index

Ekklesiazousai

Society: Rape Culture: Rape Jokes | Types: General: Rape

I. Author Index

[Info] Swallow, Peter »Sexual Violence and Aristophanic Humour.« Aristophanic Humour: Theory and Practice. Edited by Peter Swallow et al. London 2020: 167-182.

II. Speaker Index

Thesmophoriazusae

Society: Rape Culture: Rape Jokes | Types: General: Rape

I. Author Index

[Info] Swallow, Peter »Sexual Violence and Aristophanic Humour.« Aristophanic Humour: Theory and Practice. Edited by Peter Swallow et al. London 2020: 167-182.

II. Speaker Index