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grbs-1901	Hawkins, Tom	Seducing a Misanthrope: Timon the Philogynist in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata	2001	20	.pdf	application/pdf	7276	310	59	Second, even at moments of the strictest and most antagonistic gender separation, the aggressive rhetoric of both male and female characters contains the seeds of an eventual resolution.1 Melanion the misogynist and Timon the philogynist The choral sparring takes place mid-way through the play, when the women have already settled upon the sex strike, but 1 Important contributions to the study of women in comedy have been made by D. M. Bain, “Female Speech in Menander,” Antichthon 18 (1984) The men begin by singing of Melanion, a youth who flees society in order to avoid marriage and never goes homeward (o‡kade) again on account of his hatred of women (781ff).2 The women reply with a song about Timon (805ff), who spitefully curses men but, surprisingly, likes women.	cache/grbs-1901.pdf	txt/grbs-1901.txt