Complete Plays of Aristophanes (Bantam Classics)
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0553213431 / Publisher: Bantam Classics, March 1984
Background information and brief introductions accompany eleven satiric plays by the fifth century B.C. playwright
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A poet who hated an age of decadence, armed conflict, and departure from tradition, Aristophanes' comic genius influenced the political and social order of his own fifth-century Athens. But as Moses Hadas writes in his introduction to this volume, 'His true claim upon our attention is as the most brilliant and artistic and thoughtful wit our world has known.' Includes The Acharnians, The Birds, The Clouds, Ecclesiazusae, The Frogs, The Knights, Lysistrata, Peace, Plutus, Thesmophoriazusae, and The Wasps.
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