* Aristophanes ' play, a new comedy called The Ecclesiazusae, is performed.

Apparently as criticism, about 2, 400 years ago, in 390 BCE, Aristophanes wrote a play, Ecclesiazusae, about women gaining legislative power and governing Athens, Greece, on a limited principle of equality.

* Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae ed.

* Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae ed.

* Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae trans.

* Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae ed.

* Aristophanes ' Ecclesiazusae ;

According to the scholiast of Aristophanes, it was brought out before Aristophanes ' Ecclesiazusae.

Thesmophoriazusae (, Thesmophoriazousai ; meaning Women Celebrating the Festival of the Thesmophoria, sometimes also called The Poet and the Women ) is one of eleven surviving plays by the master of Old Comedy, the Athenian playwright Aristophanes.

Yet Aristophanes borrowed rather than just satirized some of the tragedian's methods ; he was once ridiculed by a colleague, Cratinus, as " a hair-splitting master of niceties, a Euripidaristophanist ".

Linguistically, the association of horse ownership with social status extends back at least as far as ancient Greece, where many aristocratic names incorporated the Greek word for horse, like Hipparchus and Xanthippe ; the character Pheidippides in Aristophanes ' Clouds has his grandfather's name with hipp-inserted to sound more aristocratic.

In the case of a frog croaking, the spelling may vary because different frog species around the world make different sounds: Ancient Greek brekekekex koax koax ( only in Aristophanes ' comic play The Frogs ) for probably marsh frogs ; English ribbit for species of frog found in North America ; English verb " croak " for the common frog.

" The word xylon " piece of wood " was also used, but for a gallows, not a stake, as in the Aristophanes comedy The Frogs ; " if you stumble, at least you'll hang from a respectable tree.

Pea soup has been eaten since antiquity ; it is mentioned in Aristophanes ' The Birds, and according to one source " the Greeks and Romans were cultivating this legume about 500 to 400 BC.

The system was further refined by his student Aristophanes of Byzantium, who first introduced the asterisk and used a symbol resembling a ⊤ for an obelus ; and finally by Aristophanes ' student, in turn, Aristarchus, from whom they earned the name of ' Aristarchian symbols '.

It includes numerous quotations from ancient writers ; the scholiasts on Aristophanes, Homer, Sophocles and Thucydides are also much used.

The most probable solution of the difficulty is that of Friedrich Thiersch, who thinks that there were two artists of this name ; one an Argive, the instructor of Phidias, born about 540 BC, the other a native of Sicyon, who flourished at the date assigned by Pliny and was confounded by the scholiast on Aristophanes with his more illustrious namesake of Argos.

In the philosophized mythology of the later Classical period, Plutus is envisaged by Aristophanes as blinded by Zeus, so that he would be able to dispense his gifts without prejudice ; he is also lame, as he takes his time arriving, and winged, so he leaves faster than he came.

Penia was also mentioned by other ancient Greek writers such as Alcaeus ( Fragment 364 ), Theognis ( Fragment 1 ; 267, 351, 649 ), Aristophanes ( Plutus, 414ff ), Herodotus, Plutarch ( Life of Themistocles ), and Philostratus ( Life of Appollonius ).

For example, the Greek Old Comedy of Aristophanes typically employed three stock characters: the alazon, the boastful imposter ; his ironic opponent, the eiron ; and the buffoon, known as the bomolochos.

Aristophanes, in The Clouds, deals more indulgently with him than with Socrates ; and Xenophon's Socrates, for the purpose of combating the voluptuousness of Aristippus, borrows from the book of " the wise Prodicus " the story of the choice of Hercules.

Aristophanes, in The Frogs, pokes fun at Theramenes ' ability to extricate himself from tight spots, but delivers none of the scathing rebukes one would expect for a politician whose role in the shocking events after Arginusae had been regarded as particularly blameworthy, and modern scholars have seen in this a more accurate depiction of how Theramenes was perceived in his time ; Lysias, meanwhile, who mercilessly attacks Theramenes on many counts, has nothing negative to say about the aftermath of Arginusae.

Virgil's Aeneid, in many respects, emulated Homer's Iliad ; Plautus, a comic playwright, followed in the footsteps of Aristophanes ; Tacitus ' Annals and Germania follow essentially the same historical approaches that Thucydides devised ( the Christian historian Eusebius does also, although far more influenced by his religion than either Tacitus or Thucydides had been by Greek and Roman polytheism ); Ovid and his Metamorphoses explore the same Greek myths again in new ways.

The Knights ( Hippeîs ; Attic ) was the fourth play written by Aristophanes, the master of an ancient form of drama known as Old Comedy.

The verb " to play the Siphnian " appears in a fragment of Aristophanes and has a similar meaning ; the usage is once again explained in the Suda, where it is said to mean " to touch the anus with a finger ".

James Henry Monk, his successor as Greek professor, and Charles James Blomfield edited the Adversaria, consisting of the notes on Athenaeus and the Greek poets, and his prelection on Euripides ; Peter Paul Dobree, afterwards Greek professor, the notes on Aristophanes and the lexicon of Photius.

During these years Droysen studied classical antiquity ; he published a translation of Aeschylus in 1832 and a paraphrase of Aristophanes ( 1835 – 1838 ), but the work by which he made himself known as a historian was his Geschichte Alexanders des Grossen ( History of Alexander the Great ), ( Berlin, 1833 and other editions ), a book that long remained the best work on Alexander the Great.

His editions of the classics include several of the plays of Euripides ; the Clouds of Aristophanes ( 1799 ); Trinummus of Plautus ( 1800 ); Poëtica of Aristotle ( 1802 ); Orphica ( 1805 ); the Homeric Hymns ( 1806 ); and the Lexicon of Photius ( 1808 ).

His most famous erotic illustrations concerned themes of history and mythology ; these include his illustrations for a privately printed edition of Aristophanes ' Lysistrata, and his drawings for Oscar Wilde's play Salome, which eventually premiered in Paris in 1896.

After finishing his studies, he translated some of the Greek tragic poets, and the Clouds of Aristophanes.

While there he also translated into Czech the Clouds of Aristophanes ( issued in the Časopis Českého musea of the Bohemian museum in 1830 ) and the Maria Stuart of Schiller ( issued in 1831 ).

* Aristophanes The Frogs and Other Plays, Penguin Classics, translated by David Barrett.

While primarily known as a poet, McGrath has also written a play, " The Autobiography of Edvard Munch " ( produced by Concrete Gothic Theater, Chicago, 1983 ); a libretto for Orlando Garcia's experimental video opera " Transcending Time " ( premiered at the New Music Biennalle, Zagreb, Croatia, 2009 ); collaborated with the video artist John Stuart on the video / poetry piece " 14 Views of Miami " ( premiered at The Wolfsonian, Miami, 2008 ); and translated the Aristophanes play The Wasps for the Penn Greek Drama Series.

The reference comes from The Birds, a play by Aristophanes in which Tereus helps Pisthetairos ( which can be translated as " Mr. Trusting ") and Euelpides (" Mr. Hopeful ") erect a perfect city in the clouds, to be named Cloud Cuckoo Land ( Νεφελοκοκκυγία or Nephelokokkygia ).

In his comedy Assemblywomen ( c. 392 BC ) Aristophanes coined the 173-letter word λοπαδο ­ τεμαχο ­ σελαχο ­ γαλεο ­ κρανιο ­ λειψανο ­ δριμ ­ υπο ­ τριμματο ­ σιλφιο ­ καραβο ­ μελιτο ­ κατακεχυ ­ μενο ­ κιχλ ­ επι ­ κοσσυφο ­ φαττο ­ περιστερ ­ αλεκτρυον ­ οπτο ­ κεφαλλιο ­ κιγκλο ­ πελειο ­ λαγῳο ­ σιραιο ­ βαφη ­ τραγανο ­ πτερύγων.

* Aristophanes ' plays Lysistrata and Women Celebrating the Thesmophoria are performed.

Cyrene is also mentioned in the second and third hymns of Callimachus as well as in The Poet and the Women ( written by Aristophanes ) whence Mnesilochus comments that he " can't see a man there at all-only Cyrene " when setting eyes upon the poet Agathon who emerges from his house to greet Euripides and himself dressed in women's clothing.

Alex Clifton ), a retelling of Euripides ' Women of Troy and Hecabe ( Oxford Playhouse / Shaw Theatre London ), Lily Jones's Birthday a satyr-play based on Aristophanes ' Lysistrata, which premiered at RADA in 2009 ; Liberty, about the French Revolution, which premiered at Shakespeare's Globe in the 2008 season ( dir.

From Euripides, the Hippolytus and The Bacchae ( together with The Frogs of Aristophanes ; first edition, 1902 ); the Medea, Trojan Women, and Electra ( 1905 – 1907 ); Iphigenia in Tauris ( 1910 ); The Rhesus ( 1913 ) were presented at the Court Theatre, in London.

* Women in Parliament by Aristophanes ( 1929 ) illustrations by Norman Lindsay, foreword by Edgell Rickword

In his play The Poet and the Women Aristophanes ' chorus claims " Even this audience, I'm sure / Would find the man a crashing bore.