Aristophanes: Women in the Assembly
Series: Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 11 June 2026
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350378209
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages200 pages
- Size 216x138 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 bw illus 700
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Long description:
This is the first book for a general audience about Women in the Assembly (Ekklesiazousai), whose central themes - gender, politics, theatre - still resonate today.
Fed up with Athens' political dysfunction and involvement in yet another war against Sparta, the women of the city don ridiculous disguises and vote themselves into power. Under female leadership Athenian society is completely reorganized when both private property and marriage are abolished. What happens when a few citizens are slow to embrace the changes? Whose side was the audience on? The Athens that these women create has been interpreted in both utopian and near-dystopian terms, but Moodie argues that Aristophanes does indeed depict a utopia where everyone's needs can be met.
With new analysis of pottery and figurines depicting Old Comedy, coupled with a thorough exploration of Aristophanes' metatheatrical plot and its relation to his earlier fantastic comedies, Moodie reveals how the comic poet promotes the ideas of his female reformers and blunts the complaints of their critics as he urges collective action for the good of the city. Moodie concludes with a chapter exploring the ways in which playwrights and directors throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have adapted Women in the Assembly in order to respond to current social and political issues, especially the changing role of women in the modern world.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Electing Ecclesiazusae
Chapter 2. Praxagora's Plan Enacted
Chapter 3. The Consequences of Success
Chapter 4. Re-electing Ecclesiazusae
Selected Chronology
Translation of Selected scholia
Glossary
Notes
Guide to Further Reading
Bibliography
Index
