Ecclesiazūsae
(
Ἐκκλησιάζουσαι). “The Women in
Council.” A comedy of
Aristophanes
(q.v.), in which the Athenian women are represented as getting into the Ecclesia in the guise
of men and altering the Constitution. This play contains the longest word in the Greek
language, an extraordinary compound of 169 letters and 77 syllables, covering six verses of
the play
(1169-1174).