The Ecclesiazusae is another women-centric play by Aristophanes that focuses on women who want to change their domestic roles and experience being men... so they take their husbands' clothes and grow facial hair to become more like men. This play is a lot like Lysistrata in many senses- the plot is similar, the characters are similar, and the message being put across is similar. I think I may have liked this one a little bit more, but I think that is only marginal. Both are great, I just find it funny that this group of women would willingly start growing beards and leg hair.

I really enjoy plays like this because they feel so modern, yet so accurate for the time. In many ways, Aristophanes seemed to be very much ahead of his time, byt not to a degree which inhibited his ability to do well in competitions at the time. In short, I really see him as more than a funny comedian, but as a very scathing thinker as well. Plays that attack a patriarchy that was in place at the time only seem to come from Aristophanes most of the time, which really brings his intellectuality into light.

Intentando romper con el sistema hegemónico patriarcal

Muy buena comedia de Atistofanes donde se plantea , siempre a su modo , como denuncia y como ironia, una ruptura con el sistema político patriarcal, claro que dentro de los parámetros axiologicos que daban marco a determinados cada cosmovisión del mundo en su contexto sociohistorico

This play is hilarious. I read this for class and it is Hilarious in every way. As my teacher puts it: "Fart jokes are the best jokes ever. Who doesn't love them?"

Not only is it funny (with very crass humour, but it's amusing. I mean, the husband tries to take such a powerful shit that it is akin to giving birth.) But we also juxtaposed it with Antigone as well as the Athenian Constitution. We discussed the dynamic of polis vs oikos and how there is a convergence of the two in this play (contrasting Antigone which has very strong opposition between the two).

We also discussed the historical context and how this play could represent an oligarchical revolution, akin to the democratic revolution following the thirty tyrants. Praxagora takes over the government (not by force but elected) and creates a communist society that is meant to solve the issue of self-interest being put over civic duty. Like people not going to Aseembly unless paid.  However, it just creates a new self-interest motivator: sex. So it doesn't quite solve the problem, it just changes the result.

Insightful and hilarious to read. The sexual innuendo are actually quite funny and I know I have said this a million times, but it is a very funny play. I had a superb time reading and laughed a lot.

Traduzir é sempre um desafio, mas traduzir comédias gregas tem um nível de dificuldade realmente elevadíssimo. São muitas camadas: piadas que não fazem sentido no século XXI, contexto histórico, transposição da língua e muitos outros…

Isso dito, a tradução excessivamente modernizante não me agradou. Foram camadas demais de contexto perdido, o que dificulta entender os propósitos e críticas de Aristófanes com a peça.

Should it be taken as a joke? Or not?

A very good read, but pointless if you have little or no contextual knowledge of Greek Theatre and The Peloponnesian War - it makes it harder to appreciate and understand.

Una genial crítica contra los comunistas y demás basuras por el estilo.
Entre todos los griegos antiguos no hay quien se compare al genial, conservador y tradicional Aristófanes.

A parliament of women vote themselves in control of Athens in order to de-politicize the polis, the political order. In the attempt to change society from "one that takes" (the system instituted by men, by patriarchy) into "one that gives" (led by women via matriarchy), the assembly of women institute communism based on absolute equality, including equality of property, of the generations, and even of sex (whereby any young men must by law service an old hag before he can love his young lover). Full of double entendres and bathroom humor in addition to the inside jokes that Aristophanes used to skewer his fellow citizens and leading Athenians. But the biggest and longest-running joke is the sheer ludicrous nature of absolute equality in any society that hopes to function effectively or even to survive. Note that, for the women to institute their egalitarian regime, they must first act (and look) like men.

How very unsurprising that women at the first chance they get implement big nanny government.

Es impresionante cómo algo que fue escrito hace tantos siglos, todavía tiene relevancia en la actualidad. Griegos antiguos, los quiero mucho.

Nou ja, tenminste heeft het λοπαδο­τεμαχο­σελαχο­γαλεο­κρανιο­λειψανο­δριμ­υπο­τριμματο­σιλφιο­καραβο­μελιτο­κατακεχυ­μενο­κιχλ­επι­κοσσυφο­φαττο­περιστερ­αλεκτρυον­οπτο­κεφαλλιο­κιγκλο­πελειο­λαγῳο­σιραιο­βαφη­τραγανο­πτερύγων

Lido pela trad. Stephan Halliwell

De nuevo, vengo aquí a decir que Aristófanes es un genio.