Aristophanes: The Complete Plays, (Paperback)

from Zohrab

Complete and unabridged, two volumes in one. Literally and completely translated from Greek

from LisaMaria_C

Aristophanes is the great comic playwright of Ancient Greece, and set the standard and form of comedy in the Western World. Moreover, his plays are often cited in discussions of what ordinary life was like in the city of Athens in the times of Socrates. No less a figure than Plato accused Aristop...

from Devil_llama

Sometimes things do not translate well from one time to another (or one language to another, either). Some of the plays, such as the Birds, the Frogs, and Lysistrata, are interesting and fun plays. Many of the rest simply are too tied to the political players of the time to be compelling. It is d...

from Zohrab

Complete and unabridged, two volumes in one. Literally and completely translated from Greek

from LisaMaria_C

Aristophanes is the great comic playwright of Ancient Greece, and set the standard and form of comedy in the Western World. Moreover, his plays are often cited in discussions of what ordinary life was like in the city of Athens in the times of Socrates. No less a figure than Plato accused Aristop...