Aristophanes 
The Thesmophoriazusae (Or The Women’s Festival) 

Like the ‚Lysistrata, ‚ the ‚Thesmophoriazusae, or Women’s Festival, ‚ and the next following play, the ‚Ecclesiazusae, or Women in Council‘ are comedies in which the fair sex play a great part. In ‘The Thesmophoriazusae’ Euripides is summoned as a notorious woman-hater and detractor of the female sex to appear for trial and judgment before the women of Athens assembled to celebrate the Thesmophoria, a festival held in honour of the goddesses Demeter and Persephone, from which men were rigidly excluded.