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we also learn that at one point the women of Athens became so frustrated with Euripides’ supposedly misogynistic depiction of heroines that they convened a meeting to decide upon his punishment. Euripides persuaded his father-in-law, Mnelisochus, to attend the assembly, disguised as a woman, to learn what they were scheming. On the surface an amusing, if improbable, anecdote, until we remember that this is exactly the plot of Aristophanes’ comedy the Thesmophoriazusae. The name “Satyrus” may well indicate we should not take the text too seriously.