by Aristófanes · Clasicas Ediciones,S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478822225
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«La asamblea de las mujeres» is Aristophanes' satirical comedy, published by Clásicas Ediciones in paperback (96 pages, in Spanish).
In the play, the Athenian women, fed up with the men's bad government, disguise themselves in their clothes to sneak into the assembly and get power into their hands. Praxagora, a shrewd and convincing protagonist, leads the plan and promotes a new order based on the community of goods that also regulates love life. The piece satirizes utopia with bawdy scenes and a freewheeling language.
The play was performed around 392 or 391 BC at the Lenaea. Its original title, Ἐκκλησιάζουσαι, is composed in ancient Greek.
For readers of classical theatre and political satire, with an interest in ancient Greek literature and its utopian proposals.
Aristophanes was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens. He wrote forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete. The majority of his surviving plays belong to the genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are considered its most valuable examples. Aristophanes's plays were performed at the religious festivals of Athens, mostly the City Dionysia and the Lenaia, and several of them won the first prize in their respective competitions.
