* 411 BCE: Both ' Thesmophoriazusae ' and Lysistrata were produced ; an oligarchic revolution ( one of the consequences of the Sicilian disaster ) proved briefly successful and the populist Hyperbolus ( a frequent target of the earlier plays ) was assassinated by oligarchic conspirators in Samos.

In Lysistrata, produced at the same time as Thesmophoriazusae, there are also two choruses ( Old Men and Old Women ) but they appear on stage together after entering separately.

Both the playwright and his work were travestied by comic poets such as Aristophanes, the known dates of whose own plays thus serve as a terminus ad quem for those of Euripides, though sometimes the gap can be considerable ( e. g. twenty-seven years separate Telephus, known to have been produced in 438 BC, from its parody in Thesmophoriazusae in 411 BC!

He is also a prominent character in Aristophanes ' comedy the Thesmophoriazusae.

Colias and the Genetullidae are mentioned also in Lysistrata and the latter once more in Thesmophoriazusae.

He appears as a character in The Acharnians and Thesmophoriazusae and he is also mentioned in other plays.

Alcmene is mentioned also in The Frogs, Semele in Thesmophoriazusae.

He is presented as such in The Acharnians, where Aristophanes shows him to be living morosely in a precarious house, surrounded by the tattered costumes of his disreputable characters ( and yet Agathon, another tragic poet, is discovered in a later play, Thesmophoriazusae, to be living in circumstances almost as bizarre ).

The Nile is mentioned again in Thesmophoriazusae.

Euripides is frequently the butt of jokes in Aristophanes ' plays and he appears as a ludicrous character in The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs.

* Euripides: One of the great tragic poets, he is the butt of jokes in many of Aristophanes plays and he even appears as a character in three of them ( The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs ).

Cunna is mentioned in two more plays and Salabaccho is mentioned again in Thesmophoriazusae.

* Cleisthenes: A conspicuously effete Athenian, he is an inexhaustible butt of jokes featuring in many plays, including a silent role in The Acharnians and a short speaking role in Thesmophoriazusae.

* Euripides: A controversial tragic poet, he is lampooned in all Aristophanes ' plays and he even features as a character in three of them ( The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs ).

He is mentioned again in Thesmophoriazusae and The Birds.

* Cleisthenes: A byword for effeminacy, he is frequently a target for jokes in other plays and appears as a character in Thesmophoriazusae.

In ' Thesmophoriazusae ' he is mentioned briefly but with respect as a war hero whose mother deserves to be publicly feted.

Thus the message behind the sexual role-reversals in Thesmophoriazusae is not that women are equal to men but rather that the present generation of men is behaving no better than the women ( the same message is delivered in Lysistrata ).

In Thesmophoriazusae, there is no such agon.

In Thesmophoriazusae, female entertainment is supplied by a dancing girl but it is not the protagonist who wins her favours-that pleasure falls into the lap of the Scythian archer.

Morychus is mentioned again in The Acharnians and The Wasps, Teleas in The Birds and Glaucetes in Thesmophoriazusae

Thrassa is a silent character in Thesmophoriazusae and the name recurs in two other plays.

It is possible ( but by no means certain ), that some ancient sources ( scholia to Aristophanes and the Suda ) are correct in identifying Theognis the tyrant with the minor tragic poet of the same name, known from Aristophanes ' mocking references to the frigidity of his poetry ( Acharnians 11 and 138, Thesmophoriazusae 170 ).

Aristophanes scripted him as a character in at least three plays: The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs.

Both plays are parodied at length in ' Thesmophoriazusae '.

* Euripides: A tragic poet renowned for his innovative plays and pathetic heroes, he appears as a ridiculous character in The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs and he receives numerous mentions in other plays.

Presumably, the fear of adultery is linked to the ban on women's consumption of alcohol, as evidenced in such plays as Aristophenes ' Thesmophoriazusae and Lysistrata.

Kore, daughter of Demeter, celebrated with her mother by the Thesmophoriazusae ( women of the festival ).

In Aristophanes ' play Thesmophoriazusae the playwright parodies Euripides ' frequent use of the crane by making Euripides himself a character in the play and bringing him on stage by way of the mekhane.

One son, Xenocles, was a tragedian who later defeated Euripides at the City Dionysia in 415 but his abilities as a dramatist are ridiculed by Aristophanes in Thesmophoriazusae and The Frogs.

In Thesmophoriazusae the Chorus of women makes the point that they are better than their men because they have preserved their heritage ( as represented by the weaving shuttle, the wool-basket and the parasol ) whereas the men have lost their spears and shields.

The productions have been: The Invention of Love ( Tom Stoppard, directed by Mary-Kay Gamel, produced by Judith Hallett ), The Heavensgate Deposition ( based on Apocolocyntosis by Seneca the Younger, adapted by Douglass Parker, directed by Amy R. Cohen, produced by Thomas Jenkins ), The Golden Age ( by Thomas Heywood, directed by C. W. Marshall ), Iran Man ( based on Persa by Plautus, directed by Mary-Kay Gamel ), Thespis ( by W. S. Gilbert and A. S. Sullivan, with new music by Alan Riley Jones, directed by John Starks, produced by John Given ), The Birds ( by Aristophanes, directed by Thomas Talboy ), Cyclops ( by Euripides, directed by Laura Lippman and Mike Lippman ), Thersites ( perhaps by Nicholas Udall, directed by C. W. Marshall ), Thesmophoriazusae ( by Aristophanes, directed by Bella Vivante ) and The Jurymen ( by Katherine Janson, directed by Amy R. Cohen ).

In Thesmophoriazusae, variations from Old Comedy conventions include:

The playwright and poet Aristophanes parodied this festival in the play, Thesmophoriazusae, but he did not give much detail about the festival itself.

" Further evidence for the reception of her work in the fifth century BC comes from the comic playwright Aristophanes, who parodied lines from her poetry both in the Wasps ( 1238 ) and the Thesmophoriazusae ( 528 ).

Aristophanes lampoons the Euripidean play in The Acharnians and Thesmophoriazusae.

Finally, Aristophanes overtly parodied Helen and Andromeda in his comedy Thesmophoriazusae, produced in 411, and Wright sees a more subtle parody of Iphigenia in Tauris in the final escape plan attempted in Thesmophoriazusae as well.

* Cleisthenes: A frequent target for jokes on account of his conspicuous effeminacy, he appears as a minor character in The Acharnians and in Thesmophoriazusae.

Hyperbolus receives a brief, derogatory mention in ' Thesmophoriazusae ' as someone whose mother does not deserve to share a table with the honoured mother of Lamachus.

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