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“There is no beast as shameless as a woman”
Aristophanes was a craft comedy poet in the fourth century B.C. during the time of the Peloponnesian War. Aristophanes’ usual style was to be satirical, and suggesting the eccentric. The most absurd and humorous of Aristophanes’ co ....
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.... even to make men doubt the innocence of a woman.
If women were such beasts as Euripides stated then would women have managed to seize the Acropolis, and prevented the men from squandering them further on the war. Euripides might have referred to the vulgarity of the women’s thoughts and language:
“It’s a sair thing, the dear knows, for a woman
tae sleep alone wi’oot a prick – but we maun do
it, for the sake of peace”
The language of the women is, as m ....
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