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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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  • 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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    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • 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 ...
    The plot of the play revolves around Pisthetaerus, an Athenian who convinces the birds to create a great city in the sky, and thus regain their status as the original gods. Pisthetaerus eventually transforms into a bird-like god himself, and replaces Zeus as the king of the gods. ... 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

    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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  • 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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  • 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

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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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  • Lysistrata

    by Aristophanes ...
    When the Peloponnesian War goes on too long, the women of Athens, led by the beautiful Lysistrata, take matters into their own hands, withholding their passion as a way to force their men to negotiate a peace treaty. But the women’s vow to deny their husbands and lovers does little to force peace, and instead ignites a battle between the sexes.Aristophanes’ Lysistrata was first performed in 411 B ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Frogs and Other Plays

    by Aristophanes, Shomit Dutta ...
    The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In The Frogs, written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a great debate to help him decide between the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus and the brilliant ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD