Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)

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ISBN: 9780140448146
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Page Count: 241
Publication Date: 4/1/2003
Size: 7.72" l x 5.00" w x 0.69"
Series: Penguin Classics

Writing at a time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent, yet bawdy, challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. In Lysistrata and The Acharnians, two pleas for an end to the long war between Athens and Sparta, a band of women and a lone peasant respectively defeat the political establishment. The darker comedy of The Clouds satirizes Athenian philosophers, Socrates in particular, and reflects the uncertainties of a generation in which all traditional religious and ethical beliefs were being challenged.

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