Greek Comedy X: Aristophanes’s Women at the Thesmophoria, or Let’s Make Fun of Euripides

Posted byTriumvir ClioPosted inGreek Comedy, The Greeks

Thesmophoriazusae or Women at the Thesmophoria or The Poet and the Women is not as famous as Lysistrat, but it is another gynocentric comedy by Aristophanes.

Discussion Prompts:
  1. How progressive/subversive/pick your modifier do you think this play is?  Why?
  2. If you were directing this play, what time period would you set it in?  Why?
  3. Who is the bigger misogynist:  Euripides or Aristophanes?  Why?
  4. Alternatively, is this not a misogynistic play?  Why or why not?

Published by Triumvir Clio

I have a BA in History and Classical Civilization from Loyola University Chicago and an MPH from Western Michigan University. I've been a geometry teacher, a religion teacher, a writing tutor. I'm a writer, a knitter, a dancer, a singer, an actor. And, yes, for fun I like to reread everything that was assigned while getting my classics degree.

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