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Assemblywomen

AuthorAristophanes

LanguageClassical Attic Greek

Year391 BCE

CountryClassical Athens

GenreDrama / Theatre / Plays

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Assemblywomen is a comedy written by the Greek playwright Aristophanes in 391 BCE. The play portrays a scenario where the women of Athens assume control of the government and institute reforms that ban private wealth and enforce sexual equity for the old and unattractive. In addition to Aristophanes' political and social satire, Assemblywomen derives its comedy through sexual and scatological humor. The play aimed to criticize the Athenian government's expropriation of land and wealth at the time.— Wikipedia