Penguin Classics: Lysistrata and Other Plays: The Acharnians, the Clouds, Lysistrata (Hardcover)

from saturnloft

This book contains 3 plays: The Acharnians, a play dealing with the conflict between Athens and Sparta and the need for resolution; Clouds, a black comedy that mercilessly skewers Socrates and his school of philosophy; & Lysistrata, the raunchy classic in which the women of Greece refuse to grant...

from Devil_llama

These Greek comedies are perhaps not as well known as the Greek tragedies, but they have a lot to recommend them. These works combine the classical structure with a large helping of post-modernism (three millennia before post-modernism existed) and a trace of absurdism. Aristophanes alternates be...

from VoodooYeager

Lysistrata is a rather funny tale of the women of Athens and Sparta coming together while their countries are at war. Determined to end their husbands' long stays away from home due to the war, these women board themselves up in the acropolis and refuse to "love" on their husbands until peace can...

from Bruce_Deming

Humorous. The women are po'ed that the men keep going to war so decide to withhold sex from their men till they make peace and stay home. Bit melo dramatic.

from chriszodrow

Hilarious and bawdy.