The 'Ecclesiazusae, or Women in Council, ' was not produced till twenty years after the preceding play, the 'Thesmophoriazusae' , but is conveniently classed with it as being also largely levelled against the fair sex. It is a broad, but very amusing, satire upon those ideal republics, founded upon communistic principles, of which Plato's well-known treatise ['The Republic'] is the best example.-From the introduction to 'The Ecclesiazusae' by Aristophanes.
The 'Ecclesiazusae, or Women in Council, ' was not produced till twenty years after the preceding play, the 'Thesmophoriazusae' , but is conveniently classed with it as being also largely levelled against the fair sex. It is a broad, but very amusing, satire upon those ideal republics, founded upon communistic principles, of which Plato's well-known treatise ['The Republic'] is the best example.-From the introduction to 'The Ecclesiazusae' by Aristophanes.