... B.C. it is known for definite that it was performed as the closing lines of the play are- " March out, march out with a lusty shout; and loud victorious cries; for a play that ends with a good blow out is sure to win first prize" The Poet and the Women is set during the Thesmophoria, a women only festival thought to be held in the Greek month Pyanopsian; roughly the equivalent to October. Euripides, a tragic poet famous for being quite a misogynist, (whether this is fact or fiction nobody really knows) is worried for his life as he knows that the women will be getting together and talking about what they can do to him. Euripides thinks that they are plotting to kill him and so devises a plan to find out what they are planning to do; his father-in-law (mnesilochus) dresses as a woman and goes ...

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