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

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?