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This paper offers several new interpretations of passages from Aristophanes'  Thesmophoriazusae . The following lines are discussed: 910, 982, 984, and 1187b. At line 910 I defend a phallic reading rarely acknowledged by most scholars. Line 982 is interpreted as a prayer to the gods rather than as a choral self-exhortation. At line 984 I read an ironic allusion to the attested practice of fasting by dramatic choruses. Here I also append a new interpretation of  Frogs  376 in view of its similarity to this passage. Finally I defend the authenticity of line 1187b, usually omitted by editors as a  parepigraphe , arguing  inter alia  that it continues the comic imagery of line 1187 which had depicted the Scythian's phallus as an unfaithful wife.

Interpretive Notes on Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae