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Lysistrata and Other Plays centers a disgruntled woman whose attempt to end a war takes the battle from an open field to the soldier's bedroom. Wives from both camps deny their husbands basic affection in an effort to quell the violence. Set during th
Den Frauen reicht's. Sie haben genug vom Krieg und wollen, dass ihre Stadt Athen endlich Frieden schließt, auch wenn dieses Ziel sich bei den kriegstollen Männern nur mit dem letzten Druckmittel erreichen lässt: No more sex! Die Titelheldin Lysistrate
The Birds by Aristophanes Greek Classics 'The Birds' differs markedly from all the other Comedies of Aristophanes which have come down to us in subject and general conception. It is just an extravaganza pure and simple
Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remar
Aristophanes, a native Athenian and the leading exponent of Greek comedy, was born c. 450 BCE. Today forty-three of his plays are known by title; eleven survive. The most famous of these is the whimsical fantasy Lysistrata . A perennial classroom and stag
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 refers to a collection of plays by Aristophanes, the greatest comic playwright of ancient Greece. This volume is part of a larger set that compiles his surviving works, known for their sharp satire, political commentary, and
The Clouds is a comedic play that satirizes the philosophical teachings of Socrates and the Sophists in classical Athens. The play centers on Strepsiades, a debt-ridden father who seeks to avoid his financial burdens by learning the art of persuasive argu
Aristophaness satirical masterpieces, immensely popular with the Athenian public, were frequently crude, even obscene. His plays revealed to his contemporaries, and now teach us today, that when those in power act obscenely, patriotic obscenity is a fitti
The master of Old Comedy. Aristophanes of Athens, one of the worlds greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and politic
What if the most dangerous idea in society wasn't ignorance-but unchecked cleverness? In Clouds , Aristophanes satirizes the most celebrated thinker in Athens-Socrates-and exposes the social consequences of education unmoored from morality. At the cen