Today the women at the festival are going to kill me for insulting them!' This bold statement by Euripides is the absurd premise upon which the whole play depends. The women are incensed by his plays' portrayal of the female sex as mad, murderous, and sexually depraved, and they are using the festival of the Thesmophoria (an annual fertility celebration dedicated to Demeter) as an opportunity to debate a suitable choice of revenge.
The Clouds
Aristophanes
book
Die Frösche
Aristophanes
book
Die Wolken
Aristophanes
book
Der Frieden
Aristophanes
book
Die Vögel
Aristophanes
book
Die Ritter
Aristophanes
book
Lysistrata
Aristophanes
book
Greek and Roman Mythology - World's Best Collection
Homer, Ovid, Hesiod, Aesop, Euripides, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Apollonius, Apulieus, Virgil, Sophocles
book
Peace
Aristophanes
book
The Clouds
Aristophanes
book
The Acharnians
Aristophanes
book
The Thesmophoriazusae
Aristophanes
book
The Bostonians
Henry James
audiobookbook
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Mark Twain
audiobookbook
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
audiobookbook
The Enchanted Wanderer
Nikolai Leskov
audiobook
Deephaven
Sarah Orne Jewett
audiobookbook
The Theogony of Hesiod
Hesiod
audiobookbook
Selected Poems
George Gordon Byron
audiobook
The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories
Rudyard Kipling
audiobook
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain
audiobook
Captains Courageous (Unabridged)
Rudyard Kipling
audiobook
Essays and Lectures (Unabridged)
Oscar Wilde
audiobook
Salammbô
Gustave Flaubert
audiobookbook