Nearby your movie-theaters soon The women then institute a communist-like government in which the state feeds, houses, and generally takes care of every Athenian. They enforce an idea of equality by allowing every man to sleep with every woman, but that the man must sleep with an ugly woman before he may sleep with a beautiful one. lol The play contains the longest word in Greek, transliterated as: lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimupotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechumenokichlepikossuphophattoperisteralektruonoptokephalliokigklopeleiolagóiosiraiobaphètraganopterugón, translate this as name of a dish compounded of all kinds of dainties, fish, flesh, fowl, and sauces. The Greek word contains 171 letters, which far surpasses that of Shakespeares 27-letter long word, honorificabilitudinitatibus in his Loves Labours The play concerns a group of women, the leader of which is Praxagora. She has decided that the women must convince the men to give them control of Athens, because they could rule it better than they have been. The women, in the guise of men, sneak into the assembly and vote the measure, convincing some of the men to vote for it because it is the only thing they have not tried. similar in theme to Lysistrata in that a large portion of the comedy comes from women involving themselves in politics. This play is much more infused with gender issues than Lysistrata is. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assemblywomen
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