Aristophanes: Lysistrata 9781350090330, 9781350090316, 9781350090309, 9781350090323, 1350090336

Lysistrata is the most notorious of Aristophanes' comedies. First staged in 411 BCE, its action famously revolves a

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Aristophanes: Lysistrata
9781350090330, 9781350090316, 9781350090309, 9781350090323, 1350090336

Lysistrata is the most notorious of Aristophanes’ comedies. First staged in 411 BCE, its action famously revolves around

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Lysistrata is the most notorious of Aristophanes' comedies. First staged in 411 BCE, its action famously revolves a

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Lysistrata is the third and last of Aristophanes' peace plays. It is a dream of peace, of how the women could help

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A brand-new translation of the world's greatest satirist. With a signature style that is at once bawdy and delicate

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Aristophanes, a native Athenian and the leading exponent of Greek comedy, was born c. 450 BCE. Today forty-three of his

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Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on Classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to

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Thesmophoriazusae is perhaps the funniest of all Aristophanes' comedies, in which gender inversion and transvestism

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Aristophanes is widely credited with having elevated the classical art of comedy to the level of legitimacy and recognit

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The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and

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