Aristophanes’ play "Thesmophoriazusae"
E480057
Aristophanes’ play "Thesmophoriazusae" is a classical Athenian comedy that satirically portrays women plotting against the tragedian Euripides during the secretive Thesmophoria festival.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aristophanes’ play "Thesmophoriazusae" canonical | 1 |
| Satire of Euripides | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4922253 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aristophanes’ play "Thesmophoriazusae" Context triple: [Thesmophoria, documentedIn, Aristophanes’ play "Thesmophoriazusae"]
-
A.
Aristophanes’ play "Plutus"
Aristophanes’ play "Plutus" is an ancient Greek comedy that satirically explores wealth, poverty, and social justice through the personification of the god of wealth.
-
B.
Aristophanes' play Clouds
Aristophanes' play "Clouds" is an ancient Greek comedy that satirically portrays Socrates and the intellectual trends of classical Athens, especially the Sophists and new philosophical education.
-
C.
Lysistrata
Lysistrata is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes in which women withhold sex to force men to negotiate peace and end the Peloponnesian War.
-
D.
Euripides’ play "Ion"
Euripides’ play "Ion" is an ancient Greek tragedy that explores themes of identity, divine intervention, and legitimacy through the story of a young man unknowingly born of Apollo and Creusa.
-
E.
The Frogs
The Frogs is a classical Greek comedy by Aristophanes that satirically depicts a journey to the underworld to critique Athenian drama and politics.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aristophanes’ play "Thesmophoriazusae" Target entity description: Aristophanes’ play "Thesmophoriazusae" is a classical Athenian comedy that satirically portrays women plotting against the tragedian Euripides during the secretive Thesmophoria festival.
-
A.
Aristophanes’ play "Plutus"
Aristophanes’ play "Plutus" is an ancient Greek comedy that satirically explores wealth, poverty, and social justice through the personification of the god of wealth.
-
B.
Aristophanes' play Clouds
Aristophanes' play "Clouds" is an ancient Greek comedy that satirically portrays Socrates and the intellectual trends of classical Athens, especially the Sophists and new philosophical education.
-
C.
Lysistrata
Lysistrata is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes in which women withhold sex to force men to negotiate peace and end the Peloponnesian War.
-
D.
Euripides’ play "Ion"
Euripides’ play "Ion" is an ancient Greek tragedy that explores themes of identity, divine intervention, and legitimacy through the story of a young man unknowingly born of Apollo and Creusa.
-
E.
The Frogs
The Frogs is a classical Greek comedy by Aristophanes that satirically depicts a journey to the underworld to critique Athenian drama and politics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ancient Greek comedy play
ⓘ
Old Comedy ⓘ |
| addressesTopic |
Freedom of speech on the comic stage
ⓘ
Male anxiety about women’s gatherings ⓘ |
| approximateDate |
Early 5th century BCE
ⓘ
c. 411 BCE ⓘ |
| author | Aristophanes ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
Gender roles in classical Athens
ⓘ
Parody of tragic conventions ⓘ Satire of Euripides ⓘ
linked to:
Aristophanes’ play "Thesmophoriazusae"
Women’s agency and speech ⓘ |
| containsChorusOf | Women celebrating the Thesmophoria ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Athenian democracy during the Peloponnesian War ⓘ |
| dramaticStructure | Includes prologue, parodos, agon, and comic episodes typical of Old Comedy ⓘ |
| extantStatus | Survives nearly complete ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Agathon
ⓘ
Euripides ⓘ Mnesilochus ⓘ Women attending the Thesmophoria ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceContext |
City Dionysia festival
ⓘ
linked to:
City Dionysia
|
| firstPerformancePlace | Athens ⓘ |
| genre |
Comedy
ⓘ
Satire ⓘ |
| hasForm | Verse drama ⓘ |
| hasModernTitleVariant |
The Thesmophoriazusae
ⓘ
linked to:
The Women at the Thesmophoria
The Women at the Thesmophoria ⓘ |
| influencedField |
Classical reception studies
ⓘ
Modern feminist readings of Greek comedy ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Classical Athens ⓘ |
| literaryTechnique |
Metatheatre
ⓘ
Parody ⓘ Role reversal and cross-dressing ⓘ |
| meter |
Primarily iambic trimeter in spoken dialogue
ⓘ
Various lyric meters in choral songs ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| parodiesGenre | Greek tragedy ⓘ |
| parodiesSpecificWork | Euripides’ plays and tragic style in general ⓘ |
| parodiesWorkOf | Euripides ⓘ |
| plotDevice | A male relative of Euripides infiltrates the women’s festival in disguise ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Women at the Thesmophoria plot revenge against Euripides for his negative portrayals of women ⓘ |
| preservedIn | Medieval manuscript tradition ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
Lysistrata
ⓘ
The Clouds ⓘ
linked to:
Aristophanes' play Clouds
The Frogs ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Thesmophoria festival in honor of Demeter and Persephone ⓘ |
| setting |
Athens
ⓘ
Thesmophoria festival ⓘ
linked to:
Thesmophoria
|
| studiedIn | Classics curricula ⓘ |
| survivalStatus | Extant play ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Aristophanes’ play "Thesmophoriazusae" Description of subject: Aristophanes’ play "Thesmophoriazusae" is a classical Athenian comedy that satirically portrays women plotting against the tragedian Euripides during the secretive Thesmophoria festival.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Aristophanes’ play "Thesmophoriazusae"
linked to: Aristophanes’ play "Thesmophoriazusae"