Aristophanes: Wasps (Aris and Phillips Classical Texts)
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ISBN: 0856682136 / Publisher: Liverpool University Press, December 1983
Wasps was first produced at the Lenaea festival of 422 BC. The play is at once a political satire an...
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Wasps was first produced at the Lenaea festival of 422 BC. The play is at once a political satire and also, like Clouds and the lost Banqueters , a comedy on the theme of the conflict of generations. The play follows the efforts of a mischievous and mercurial old man to escape the control of astern and heavy son.
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