The Parliament of the women
the Parliament of the women (in Greek Ἐκκλησιάζουσαι / Ekklēsiázdousai , literally “those which sit at the assembly”) is a ancient Greek Comédie of Aristophane written towards 392 av. J. - C.
Synopsis
In the Parliament of the women , the Athenian , at the instigation of the one as of their, Gaillardine, gathers at dawn on the Agora to take in the place men measurements which are essential to save the city.When those awake the following day, they discover with amazement the reforms that the women intend to adopt: pooling of the goods, right for the ugliest women and oldest to choose a companion. The evening, a large banquet celebrates the establishment of the new order of the things, and the part is completed in a dionysiaque atmosphere truly .
By putting in scene the debates of the Athenian ones, which lend to laughing by their lack of political scope, but also by their defect of direction practices and the immoderate defense of the private interests which appears there, in fact the constitution projects animate Athens of its time that Aristophane intends to turn in derision. One observes also in this part disillusion of large poet comic, whose bitterness does nothing but grow after the capitulation of Athens which closes the Peloponnesian War in -404, like front the degradation of the Athenian political institutions, which led to the re-establishment of the Tyrannie in -411, then in -404.
Strange
The part contains the Greek word longest λοπαδοτεμαχοσελαχογαλεοκρανιολειψανοδριμυποτριμματοσιλφιοκαραϐομελιτοκατακεχυμενοκιχλεπικοσσυφο- φαττοπεριστεραλεκτρυονοπτεκεφαλλιοκιγκλοπελειολαγῳοσιραιοϐαφητραγανοπτερυγών , transliterated: lopadotemakhoselakhogaleokranioleipsanodrimypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakekhymenokikhlepikossypho- phattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokinklopeleiolagōiosiraiobaphētraganopterygṓn (v. 1169-1174). The dictionary Liddell & Scott translated: “name of a dish made up of all kinds of delicacies, fish, flesh, poultry and sauces”.
References and notes
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