Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata

William Arrowsmith (Translator), Richmond Lattimore (Translator), and Douglass Parker (Translator)

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Whether his target is the war between the sexes or his fellow playwright Euripides, Aristophanes is the most important Greek comic dramatist—and one of the greatest comic playwrights of all time. His writing—at once bawdy and delicate—brilliantly fuses serious political satire with pyrotechnical bombast, establishing the tradition of comedy as high art. His messages are as timely and relevant today as they were in ancient Greece, and his plays still provoke laughter—and thought.
 
This volume features four celebrated masterpieces: Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, and The Clouds, translated by three of the most distinguished translators and classicists of our time.
 

  • ISBN10 0452007178
  • ISBN13 9780452007178
  • Publish Date 1 November 1984
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 28 January 2010
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Imprint Plume