Thesmophoriazusae was performed in Athens in 411 BCE, most likely
at the City Dionysia, and is among the most brilliant of
Aristophanes' eleven surviving comedies. It is the story of the
crucial moment in a quarrel
between the tragic playwright Euripides and Athens' women, who
accuse him of slandering them in his plays and are holding a
meeting at one of their secret festivals to set a penalty for his
crimes. Thesmophoriazusae is a brilliantly inventive comedy, full
of wild slapstick humour and devastating literary parody, and is a
basic source for questions of gender and sexuality in late
5th-century Athens and for the popular reception of Euripidean
tragedy.
Austin and Olson offer a text based on a fresh examination of the
papyri and manuscripts, and a detailed commentary covering a wide
range of literary, historical, and philological issues. The
introduction includes sections on the date and historical setting
of the play; the Thesmophoria festival; Aristophanes' handling of
Euripidean tragedy; staging; Thesmophoriazusae II; and the history
of modern critical work on the text. All Greek in the introduction
and commentary not cited for technical reasons is translated.
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