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An Examination of the Significance of Praxagora’s Political Program in Aristophanes’ The Assemblywomen(Ecclesiazusae 571-710)

Rhim, Sung-Chul 1,  권현숙 1

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The Assemblywomen’s lines 571-710, which represented Praxagora’s political program, indicate the framework typical of old plays in the formation of works. Aristophanes wished to show in these lines that there would be no utopian community where every individual is equally happy and domination has not been existed in social order. It is because human beings as deprivation are inherently selfish. Praxagora’s political vision is based on the idealistic ones which have existed before Aristophanes. They were rooted in mythological and mythical traditions before him, and his statements have both positive and negative aspects. Aristophanes wanted to tell the audience that the abolition of private property and marriage cannot lead to human happiness. Aristophanes’ basic intention in this play is two-fold: it is intended to give a criticism against the ‘superficial perfectionism of human being’; its goal is to write comedy play about this self-evident fact. This work turned out, therefore, to be a political poetry and it entails its anthropological, political, psychological, and social economic backgrounds. Praxagora’s claim in the Assemblywomen can be identified with a ‘political cabaret’ in the form of art. Aristophanes who was a political comedy writer in Greek seems to be regarded as only a historical figure. But it is the author’s intention that his political play has still the same effect on the ways to interpret our current political situation which becomes getting worse than Greek times.

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