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Thesmophoriazusae

Thesmophoriazousai

The women of Athens, furious at Euripides for portraying them as scheming and immoral, plot his destruction, letting Aristophanes stage a running parody of Euripidean tragedy through cross-dressing and mistaken rescue.

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