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  • The Frogs

    Enriched edition.

    by Aristophanes, Sydney Caldwell ...
    In "The Frogs," Aristophanes skillfully combines comedy and social critique to explore themes of art, politics, and the afterlife within the context of Athenian drama. This satirical play, structured as a journey to the underworld, showcases Aristophanes' hallmark use of clever wordplay, vivid characters, and biting humor. As the protagonist, Dionysus, embarks on a quest to retrieve the playwright ... Read more

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  • The Eleven Plays of Aristophanes

    by Aristophanes ...
    All 11 comedies, literally translated. Two volumes in one file. Includes: Knights, Acharnians, Peace, Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Wasps, The Birds, The Frogs, The Thesmophoriazusae, The Ecclesiazusae, and Plutus. According to Wikipedia: "Aristophanes (ca. 446 BCE ca. 386 BCE), son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a prolific and much acclaimed, comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven ... Read more

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  • Lysistrata

    Enriched edition.

    by Aristophanes, Sydney Caldwell ...
    Translated by Jack Lindsay ...
    In Aristophanes' timeless comedy, "Lysistrata," the Athenian playwright masterfully weaves a narrative that tackles themes of war, gender dynamics, and political activism through the lens of humor and irony. This spirited work, primarily set against the backdrop of the Peloponnesian War, depicts Lysistrata, a cunning Athenian woman who orchestrates a bold strike—one that encourages women to ... Read more

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  • The Birds (Annotated)

    by Aristophanes ...
    In Aristophanes’ comic fantasy, an ambitious Athenian persuades the birds to build a city in the sky. What follows is a playful satire of power, persuasion and human ambition. The Birds brings together imaginative storytelling and the sharp social humor of ancient Greek comedy. For readers of classical drama, political satire and theatre. An annotated edition. ... Read more

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  • LYSISTRATA

    by ARISTOPHANES ...
    Lysistrata by Aristophanes is a comedic masterpiece set against the backdrop of the Peloponnesian War. In a bold attempt to end the war, the women of Greece withhold their affections from their men until peace is achieved. With Aristophanes' sharp wit and satirical approach, Lysistrata offers a humorous critique of war and gender roles. It's a classic that still rings true, challenging societal ... Read more

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  • Aristophanes: The Complete Plays

    by Aristophanes ...
    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, ... Read more

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  • The Clouds

    by Aristophanes ...
    Series series The Works of Aristophanes presented by Kobo Editions
    Burdened by his son’s expensive habit of betting on horse races, Strepsiades enrolls in a school for charlatans run by the philosopher Socrates. Deemed too old, Pheidippides takes his father’s place to learn how to become the best orator in Ancient Greece and talk his way out of trouble. Accompanied by patron goddesses dressed as clouds, the pair scheme to convince their creditors to forgive the ... Read more

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  • The Birds

    by Aristophanes ...
    Series series The Works of Aristophanes presented by Kobo Editions
    Wishing to escape the nonsense of the city – laws, wars, politicians, who needs ‘em? – a pair of Athenians decide to leave civilization behind and live among the birds. However, not even utopia is free from their very human desire for advancement, no matter how far from society the two men find themselves. Soon the Athenians establish an empire of birds, and plot to steal the scepter of heaven ... Read more

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  • The Eleven Comedies: Includes: Knights, Acharnaians, Peace, Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Wasps, The Birds, The Frogs, The Thesmophoriazusae, The Ecclesiazusae, And Plutus (Mobi Classics)

    by Aristophanes ...
    The Eleven Comedies: Knights, Acharnaians, Peace, Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Wasps, The Birds, The Frogs, The Thesmophoriazusae, The Ecclesiazusae, and Plutus. Eleven of his forty plays have come down to us virtually complete. These, as well as fragments of some of his other plays, provide us with the only real example we have of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and they are in fact ... Read more

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  • The Birds and Other Plays

    by Aristophanes ...
    Translated by Alan H. Sommerstein, David Barrett ...
    The plays in this volume all contain Aristophanes' trademark bawdy comedy and dazzling verbal agility. In THE BIRDS, two frustrated Athenians join the birds to build the utopian city of 'Much Cuckoo in the Clouds'. THE KNIGHTS is a venomous satire on Cleon, a prominent Athenian demagogue, while THE ASSEMBLY WOMEN deals with the battle of the sexes as the women of Athens infiltrate the all-male ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Lysistrata and Other Plays

    by Aristophanes ...
    Translated by Alan H. Sommerstein ...
    The Acharnians/The Clouds/Lysistrata'We women have the salvation of Greece in our hands'Writing at a time of political and social crisis in Athens, the ancient Greek comic playwright 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 on a sex strike ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Frogs

    by Aristophanes ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'Ko-ax, ko-ax, ko-ax!Now listen, you musical twerps,I don't give a damn for your burps!'A biting comedy from the great Ancient Greek playwright.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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