She reports that the home of a newly married couple in ancient Greece could be a hotbed of intrigue, according to Aristophanes, who saw this not as high drama but as low comedy. Colegrove, a teacher at the Canterbury School, Ft. To uncover the reality behind them, Colegrove analyzes the playwright's comic exaggerations of men's fears about marriage. CTCWeb is providing a great service to the scholarly community by making papers like my own readily available to those with interest through the medium of the Internet. From the text a reader can access translations of Aristophanes' plays and read the lines that Colegrove cites to relate the plight of women in ancient marriages.
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