| In Aristophanes’ most popular play, sex is a powerful agent of reconciliation. As war ravages ancient Greece, a band of women, led by Lysistrata, promise to deny their husbands all sex until they stop fighting. And the battle of the sexes begins… |
1911
| Aristophanes was a Greek living c. 456 B C. He is known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy. The main character of this satirical play is Socrates. This humorous look at academia is also the first self-referential piece of drama. In the middle of the play the playwright takes the stage and criticizes the audience for not having a sense of humor. |
1950
| Work from one of the great Ancient Greek Dramatists, circa 448 BC - 385 BC, many of whose plays satirized well-known citizens of Athens and their conduct in the Peloponnesian War and after. |
1908
| Work from one of the great Ancient Greek Dramatists, circa 448 BC - 385 BC, many of whose plays satirized well-known citizens of Athens and their conduct in the Peloponnesian War and after. |
2004
| XANTHIAS (turning to the audience): Come, I must explain the matter to the spectators. But first a few words of preamble: expect nothing very high-flown from us, nor any jests stolen from Megara; we have no slaves, who throw baskets of nuts to the spectators, nor any Heracles to be robbed of his dinner, nor does Euripides get loaded with contumely. |
1920
| Work from one of the great Ancient Greek Dramatists, circa 448 BC - 385 BC, many of whose plays satirized well-known citizens of Athens and their conduct in the Peloponnesian War and after. |
1917
| The eleven plays, all that have come down to us out of a total of over forty staged by our author in the course of his long career, deal with the events of the day, the incidents and personages of contemporary Athenian city life, playing freely over the surface of things familiar to the audience and naturally provoking their interest and rousing their prejudices, dealing with contemporary local gossip, contemporary art and literature, and above all contemporary politics, domestic and foreign. |
2004
| THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE E-BOOK. PLUTUS: Zeus inflicted it on me, because of his jealousy of-mankind. When I was young, I threatened him that I would only go to the just, the wise, the men of ordered life; to prevent my distinguishing these, he struck me with blindness' so much does he envy the good! |
1964
| Work from one of the great Ancient Greek Dramatists, circa 448 BC - 385 BC, many of whose plays satirized well-known citizens of Athens and their conduct in the Peloponnesian War and after. |
2004
| Come, withdraw and remain seated in the future. I am going to take this chaplet myself and speak in your name. May the gods grant success to my plans! My country is as dear to me as it is to you, and I groan, I am grieved at all that is happening in it. Scarcely one in ten of those who rule it is honest, and all the others are bad. If you appoint fresh chiefs, they will do still worse. |
2009
| With Introduction Critical Notes And Commentary. |
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