Aristophanes: 144 books

Deux citoyens, Pisthétéros (Fidèle ami) et Evelpide (Bon espoir), dégoûtés de la vie que l'on mène à Athènes, se déterminent à bâtir une ville aérienne, Néphélocokkygia (Nuéecoucouville). Tous les hommes veulent y venir habiter, mais le poète, enlevant le sceptre aux dieux qui ne...

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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...

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. (Auszug aus Wikipedia)

Lysistrata 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 persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing...

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...

In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war.

Strepsiades complains to the audience that he is too worried about household debts to get any sleep – his aristocratic wife has encouraged their son's expensive interest in horses. Strepsiades, having thought up a plan to get out of debt, wakes the youth gently and pleads with him to do something...

Visiting the underworld, the god Dionysus seeks the counsel of the dead tragedians Aeschylus and Euripides on how to bring good writing back to Athens. A fierce debate - full of scathing insults and literary satire - ensues between the two dramatists.

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'Ko-ax, ko-ax, ko-ax! Now listen, you musical twerps, I don't give a damn for your burps!' A biting comedy from the great Ancient Greek playwright. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives...

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...

Ecclesiazusae (Greek: Ἐκκλησιάζουσαι Ekklesiazousai; translated as Assemblywomen, Congresswomen, Women in Parliament, Women in Power, and A Parliament of Women) is a play dating from 391 BC which is similar in theme to Lysistrata in that a large portion of the comedy comes from women...

Trygaeus, a middle-aged Athenian, miraculously brings about a peaceful end to the Peloponnesian War, thereby earning the gratitude of farmers while bankrupting various tradesmen who had profited from the hostilities. He celebrates his triumph by marrying Harvest, a companion of Festival and Peace, all of whom he has liberated from a celestial prison.