Aristophanes: 144 books

The Knights is a satire on political and social life in 5th-century BC Athens, the characters are drawn from real life and Cleon is clearly intended to be the villain. However it is also an allegory, the characters are figures of fantasy and the villain in this context is Paphlagonian, a comic monstrosity responsible for almost everything that's wrong with the world.

Lysistrata is a comedy originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC. A comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate...

L'ancien professeur de rhétorique bien connu et si estimé, auteur de la belle traduction qu'on va lire, M. Talbot, n'est plus. Il est mort plein d'années, entouré de respect et d'affection. Outre la tendresse des siens il goûtait l'attachement de cette grande famille spirituelle, si douce aux vieux...

Seine bedeutendsten Werke in einem Band: Die Acharner Die Ritter Die Wolken Die Wespen Der Frieden Die Vögel Lysistrate Die Weiber am Thesmophorenfest Die Frösche Die Weibervolksversammlung Plutos