The Ecclesiazusae
Aristophanes
80 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 1420927620
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Language: English
Publish: 1136102400000
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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 drawn in his Republic.