Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Alan H. Read more all traditional religious and ethical beliefs were being challenged. The darker comedy of The Clouds satirizes Athenian philosophers, Socrates in particular, and reflects the uncertainties of a generation in which.

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 and a lone peasant respectively defeat the political establishment. She has convened a meeting of women from various Greek city-states that are at war with each other. Lysistrata, however, is an extraordinary woman with a large sense of individual and social responsibility. 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. Women, as represented by Calonice, are sly hedonists in need of firm guidance and direction. Num Pages: 304 pages, notes, bibliography, chronology. Book Synopsis Lysistrata and Other Plays centers a disgruntled woman whose attempt to end a war takes the battle from an open field to the soldiers bedroom. Collecting three comedies that show Aristophanes tackling the consequences of war and social upheaval in Athens with his characteristic wit, this title is translated from the Greek with an introduction and notes. The very title of Aristophanes Farmers is already. Description for Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) Paperback. extends to the fragments of other peace plays as well, although these have received less attention.

Lysistrata and other plays