Aristophanes: Ecclesiazusae
, by Sommerstein, Alan H.- ISBN: 9780856687082 | 0856687081
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/1/1998
Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophonic 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 Republix.