Overview :Aristophanes' Acharnians was performed at the Lenaia festival in Athens in 425 BCE. The play is the story of an old peasant farmer, Dikaiopo... Read More
Overview :Aristophanes is the only author of Greek Attic comedy whose work survives in any form beyond fragments. His eleven surviving comedies reflec... Read More
Overview :Lysistrata, frustrated at the ongoing violence of the civil war, convinces the women of Athens to deny their husbands sex, until a treaty fo... Read More
Overview :Aristophanes' sophisticated comedy on the style and role of the plays of the modern Euripides vis a vis the traditional Aeschylus, contains ... Read More
Overview :This is the first book-length study dedicated to Aristophanes' Wasps (422 BCE), which is arguably one of his most hilarious and inventive co... Read More
Overview :Offering for the first time a student introduction to Aristophanes' most explosive political satire, this volume is an essential guide to th... Read More
Overview :Professor Dover's newest book is designed for those who are interested in the history of comedy as an art form but who are not necessarily f... Read More
Overview :Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and farce, the earlie... Read More
Overview :In the first play he produced on his own behalf, Aristophanes launched a violent attack on Cleon, the leading politician of the day, on the ... Read More
Overview :Aristophanes' Frogs was produced in 405 BC, shortly after the deaths of the two great veteran Athenian tragic dramatists, Euripides and Soph... Read More
Overview :Clouds is a partly revised version of a play that failed when it was first produced. It has always fascinated (and usually shocked) students... Read More
Overview :Clouds is a partly revised version of a play that failed when it was first produced. It has always fascinated (and usually shocked) students... Read More
Overview :In one of his last books, Socrates and Aristophanes, Leo Strauss's examines the confrontation between Socrates and Aristophanes in Aristoph... Read More