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Praxagora has called upon all of the most clever and accomplished women in Athens to join her in a plot to take over the government. The plan is for the women - disguised as men - to go to the Assembly and vote for a number of new policies, including communal wealth, sharing of parental duties, and an equal distribution of sexual partners among members of the community who are viewed as less desirable. In this comic scene, the women attempt to practice their manly personas before their
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PRAXAGORA
Take your seats, and, since you are all gathered here at last, let us see if what we decided on at the feast of the Scirophoria has been duly done.
FIRST WOMAN
Yes. Firstly, as agreed, I have let the hair under my armpits grow thicker than a bush; furthermore, whilst my husband was at the Assembly, I rubbed myself from head to foot with oil and then stood
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