A collection that includes Lysistrata , the hilariously bawdy anti-war fantasy; The Acharnians , a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta; and The Clouds , a satire on contemporary philosophy.

Selected and with introductions by Hugh Griffith and Tom Griffith.

Selected and with an introduction by Tom Griffith.

Talks about plays such as The Frogs , written during the Peloponnesian War; The Wasps , in which an old-fashioned father and his loose-living son come to blows and end up in court; and The Poet and the Women , in which Euripides, accused of misogyny, persuades a relative to find out whether revenge is being plotted against him.

Contains five stories, including The Birds , The Knights , The Assembly Women , Peace and Wealth .

Originally adapted for stage, Peter Meineck's revised translation features a general introduction and introductions to the plays. Detailed notes on staging, history, religious practice and myth combine to make a this a practical teaching text.

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Arist

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led by the title character, the women of the warring city-states of Greece agree to withhold sexual favours with their husbands until they agree to cease fighting. The war of the sexes that ensues makes 'Lysistrata' a comedy without peer in the history of theatre.

Wasps was first produced at the Lenaea festival of 422 BC. The play is at once a political satire and also, like Clouds and the lost Banqueters, a comedy on the theme of the conflict of generations. The play follows the efforts of a mischievous and mercurial old man to escape the control of a stern and heavy son. In its political aspect it attacks the leading Athenian politician Cleon, as Knights

Staging Women for the first time presents Aristophanes' three women's comedies in a single volume and in unexpurgated, annotated translations.

This line-for-line translation of Aritophanes' famous comedy features an introduction that explores Old Comedy, and the place of Clouds and Aristophanic comedy within it. The text is accompanied by extensive footnotes.

This line-for-line translation of Aritophanes' famous comedy features an introduction that explores Old Comedy and the place of Clouds and Aristophanic comedy within it. The text is accompanied by extensive footnotes.

This is the first complete verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies to appear for more than twenty-five years and makes freshly available one of the most remarkable comic playwrights in the entire Western tradition, complete with an illuminating introduction including play by play analysis and detailed notes. Contains: Birds; Lysistrata; Assembly-Women; Wealth.

Lysistrata is the third and last of Aristophanes' peace plays. It is a dream of peace, of how the women could help to achieve an honourable settlement, conceived when Athens was going through its blackest, most desperate crisis since the Persian War. Though in modern times this is perhaps the most popular of his works, it has never before had an English translation that aims to be reliable in ...

Lysistrata, the play's heroine persuades the women to barricade themselves inside a building, refusing to give their husbands sex until they negotiate an end to the Peloponnesian War and secure peace. She also persuades the women of Sparta,the enemy, to join her cause and refuse sex to their husbands until they agree to stop the war.

Originally adapted for the stage, Peter Meineck's revised translations achieve a level of fidelity appropriate for classroom use while managing to preserve the wit and energy that led The New Yorker to judge his Clouds The best Greek drama we've ever seen anywhere. and The Times Literary Supplement to describe his Wasps as Hugely enjoyable and very, very funny. A general introduction, ...