Aristophanes: Ecclesiazusae
by Sommerstein, Alan H., Aristophanes
fromAris & Phillips Classical Texts
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Type: Book
Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and farce, the earliest surviving work in the western Utopian tradition, and the source of a blueprint for a communist society on which Plato may well have draw…