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The Acharnians/The Clouds/Lysistrata

''We women have the salvation of Greece in our hands''

Writing at a time of political and social crisis in Athens, the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes was an eloquent, yet bawdy, challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. In Lysistrata and The Acharnians, two pleas for an end to the long war between Athens and Sparta, a band of women on a sex strike and a lone peasant respectively defeat the political establishment. The darker comedy of The Clouds satirizes Athenian philosophers, Socrates in particular, and reflects the uncertainties of a generation in which all traditional religious and ethical beliefs were being challenged.

Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Alan H. Sommerstein



Table of Contents
Lysistrata and Other PlaysChronology
Introduction
Further Reading
Translator's Note
Note on the Text

Preface to The Acharnians
THE ACHARNIANS
Preface to The Clouds
THE CLOUDS
Preface to Lysistrata
LYSISTRATA

Notes

Lysistrata and Other Plays

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 30 January 2003
      ISBN-13 9780140448146
      978-0140448146
      ISBN-10 0140448144
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The Acharnians/The Clouds/Lysistrata

      ''We women have the salvation of Greece in our hands''

      Writing at a time of political and social crisis in Athens, the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes was an eloquent, yet bawdy, challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. In Lysistrata and The Acharnians, two pleas for an end to the long war between Athens and Sparta, a band of women on a sex strike and a lone peasant respectively defeat the political establishment. The darker comedy of The Clouds satirizes Athenian philosophers, Socrates in particular, and reflects the uncertainties of a generation in which all traditional religious and ethical beliefs were being challenged.

      Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Alan H. Sommerstein



      Table of Contents
      Lysistrata and Other PlaysChronology
      Introduction
      Further Reading
      Translator's Note
      Note on the Text

      Preface to The Acharnians
      THE ACHARNIANS
      Preface to The Clouds
      THE CLOUDS
      Preface to Lysistrata
      LYSISTRATA

      Notes

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