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Aristophanes: EcclesiazusaeAris & Phillips Classical Texts 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. This edition attempts to set the play, more closely than has usually been done, against the political background at the time

Ή μήπως μια πραγματική πρόσκληση σε φόνο

With their “less is more” approach to life

from sacrificing her daughter to honour his dead friend

a senator under the Flavian emperors

It has been constantly reprinted since it was first published

extravagant language

alongside a select vocabulary and a useful appendix on metres

and the significance of his drama for our own day

and indeed still the world’s greatest feminist drama

to Aristotle’s thoughts on physical change and political innovation

Medea is suitable for students of both Classical Civilisation and Drama

This moving fable sees a young Greek writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance