Three Plays: Lysistrata / The Acharnians / The Clouds
Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta. In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of...
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Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta. In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war. The darker comedy of The Clouds satirizes Athenian philosophers, Socrates in particular, and reflects the uncertainties of a generation in which all traditional religious and ethical beliefs were being challenged.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780140442878 (0140442871)
Publish date: March 30th 1974
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Lysistrata For me the least funny but most interesting of the three plays in this volume. It's full of the same sexual humour as the others and equally preposterous. It's examination of sexual politics is more interesting than its plea for peace with Sparta (perhaps partly because the latter is tr...
ChronologyIntroduction & NotesFurther ReadingTranslator's NoteNote on the TextPreface to The Acharnians--The AcharniansPreface to The Clouds--The CloudsPreface to Lysistrata--LysistrataNotes
I'm slowly working my way through the Ancient Greek play writes and I have read Aeschylus and Sophocles but not Euripides. Aristophanes is my first comedic Greek play write and likely to be my last because he is the only one that survives. This volume contains Lysistrata, The Archanians and the Cl...
Awesome! Read it and you'll understand. There has never been a better use of a sex strike. ;)
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