Aristophanes

Lysistrata

The Frogs (Ancient Greek: Βάτραχοι, Bátrachoi) is a comedy written by the Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed at the Lenaia, one of the Festivals of Dionysus in Athens, in 405 BC, receiving first place.

The Frogs

Lysistrata/The Acharnians the Clouds

Le rane

Lysistrata, the Birds, the Clouds, the Archarnians

Aristophanes Four Major Plays

Pluto

As Vespas

And the Frogs; Literally Translated Into English Prose, from the Greek of Aristophanes; with Notes from the Scholia and Other Commentaries

The Comedies of Plutus

annotatione critica, commentario exegetico, et scholiis graecis. Plutus. Pars VI

Aristophanis Comoediae

Aristophanous Ploutos. The Plutus of Aristophanes, from the text of Dindorf, with remarks by H.P. Cookesley

With Notes

The Clouds of Aristophanes

Menander

Written in the century following the defeat of Athens by the Spartans in the Peloponnesian War, these four plays signal a change of emphasis in stage comedy more appropriate to the new world order of the fourth century BC. Aristophanes is the only Greek playwright whose work spans the fifth and fourth centuries BC and links the direct slapstick and bawdy of Old Comedy to the more subtle situational New Comedy. Women in Power and Wealth complete the cycle of Aristophanes's extant plays begun in Aristophanes Plays: One and Plays: Two, translated by Kenneth McLeish. Writing seventy years after Aristophanes's death, Menander's only complete surviving works, The Malcontent and The Woman from Samos are here translated by J. Michael Walton. Kenneth McLeish and J. Michael Walton provide full introductions, discussing the plays and placing them in their political and social context.

Women in Power; Wealth; The Malcontent; The Woman from Samos

New Comedy

The Wasps

Aristophanes' "Esslesiazusae", written in the early 4th Century BC, marks a crossroads in his career. Post-dating the Peloponnesian War, it reflects a late change in his writing and a much changed society. This edition includes the complete text.

The Ecclesiazusae

The story of 'Plutus' concerns Chremylus, a poor but just man, who accompanied by his body-servant Cario, consults the Delphic Oracle concerning his son, whether he ought not to be instructed in injustice and knavery and the other arts whereby worldly men acquire riches. By way of answer the god only tells him that he is to follow whomsoever he first meets upon leaving the temple, who proves to be a blind and ragged old man.

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