Aristophanes: 144 books

Complete Works of Aristophanes "The Father of Comedy"! 11 Complete Works! Fully Interactive Table of Contents For Easy Navigation! Works Included: Lysistrata Peace Plutus The Acharnians The Birds The Clouds The Ecclesiazusae The Frogs The Knights The Thesmophoriazusae The Wasps

THE ECCLESIAZUSAE (translated variously as 'women in power' or 'women in council'), group of Athenian women led by Praxagora sneak into the Athenian assembly disguised as men and vote the women of the Republic into power.  In this hilarious farce, the women enforce an odd brand of equality through...

PEACE, set during a pause in the Peloponnesian War in 421 BC, follows the story of Trygaeus.  Trygaeus arranges a peace with Sparta, earning him the lasting gratitude of farmers while garnering the hatred of tradesmen, who will be bankrupted by peace. Aristophanes (c.446 BC - c.386...

      “How many times round the track is the race for the chariots of war?” Aristophanes' The Clouds is a timeless comedy, combining witty satire to delightful effect. Modern critics have acclaimed it as a perfectly realized fantasy caricaturing...

This is the first of the series of three Comedies--'The Acharnians,' 'Peace' and 'Lysistrata'--produced at intervals of years, the sixth, tenth and twenty-first of the Peloponnesian War, and impressing on the Athenian people the miseries and disasters due to it and to the scoundrels who by their...

“I am entranced When I can curse my lord behind his back.”     Aristophanes' The Frogs is a timeless comedy, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to delightful effect. Modern critics have acclaimed it as a perfectly realized fantasy remarkable...

The Acharnians or Acharnians (Ancient Greek: Ἀχαρνεῖς Akharneîs; Attic: Ἀχαρνῆς) is the third play — and the earliest of the eleven surviving plays — by the Athenian playwright Aristophanes. It was produced in 425 BCE on behalf of the young dramatist by an associate, Callistratus,...

Thesmophoriazusae (Greek: Θεσμοφοριάζουσαι Thesmophoriazousai; meaning Women Celebrating the Festival of the Thesmophoria, sometimes also called The Poet and the Women) is one of eleven surviving plays by the master of Old Comedy, the Athenian playwright Aristophanes. It was first...

8 Complete Works of Aristophanes Peace The Acharnians The Birds The Clouds The Eleven Comedies vol 1 The Eleven Comedies vol 2 The Frogs Lysistrata

Aristophanes: Lysistrate. Ein Lustspiel Nach zwanzig Jahren Krieg mit Sparta treten die Athenerinnen unter Frührung Lysistrates in den sexuellen Generalstreik, um ihre kriegswütigen Männer endlich zur Räson bringen. Als Lampito die Damen von Sparta zu ebensolcher Verweigerung bringen kann, geht der...

Aristophanes (* zwischen 450 v. Chr. und 444 v. Chr. in Athen; † um 380 v. Chr. ebenda) war ein griechischer Komödiendichter. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Vertreter der griechischen Komödie, insbesondere der Alten Komödie, und des griechischen Theaters überhaupt. Seine Komödien, vor...

Perhaps the first thing to strike us-paradoxical as it may sound to say so-about the Athenian 'Old Comedy' is its modernness. Of its very nature, satiric drama comes later than Epic and Lyric poetry, Tragedy or History; Aristophanes follows Homer and Simonides, Sophocles and Thucydides. Of its essence,...

Lysistrata (/laɪˈsɪstrətə/ or /ˌlɪsəˈstrɑːtə/; Attic Greek: Λυσιστράτη, "Army Disbander") is a comedy by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata...

Aristophanes' play, Lysistrata, takes place toward the end of the Peloponnesian War and centers on the lives of the soldiers' wives. One woman, Lysistrata, under the impression that a man's libido is ultimately his driving force in life, comes up with an interesting peace solution: to deny their husbands...