Aristophanes: 144 books

Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they are in fact used to define the genre. Also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy, Aristophanes has been said to recreate the...

In many respects 'The Knights' may be reckoned the great Comedian's masterpiece, the direct personal attack on the then all-powerful Cleon, with its scathing satire and tremendous invective, being one of the most vigorous and startling things in literature. Already in 'The Acharnians' he had threatened...

Lysistrata (/laɪˈsɪstrətə/ or /ˌlɪsəˈstrɑːtə/; Attic Greek: Λυσιστράτη, "Army-disbander") 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...

"It is difficult to compare the Aristophanic Comedy to any one form of modern literature, dramatic or other. It perhaps most resembles what we now call burlesque; but it had also very much in it of broad farce and comic opera, and something also (in the hits at the fashions and follies of the...

Le sujet de la Paix est le même que celui des Acharniens: seulement la paix, qui dans cette comédie n'est le vœu que d'un seul homme, est ici l'objet des désirs de tout le monde. Le vigneron Trygée, monté sur un escarbot, arrive à la porte de l'Olympe et découvre la Paix dans une caverne profonde...

 “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...

This Comedy, which was produced by its author the year after the performance of 'The Clouds,' may be taken as in some sort a companion picture to that piece. Here the satire is directed against the passion of the Athenians for the excitement of the law-courts, as in the former its object was the new...

Plutus (Ancient Greek: Πλοῦτος, Ploutos, "Wealth") is an Ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Aristophanes, first produced in 408 BC, revised and performed again in c. 388 BC. A political satire on contemporary Athens, it features the personified god of wealth Plutus. Reflecting...

Lysistrata is a favorite of the Greek plays-its never pompous or overbearing, and it never overwhelms itself with flowery prose. In addition, its one of the few Greek plays youll read that portrays women as genuine human beings rather than murderers, decorations, or idiots. Theyre smart, sexy, and socially...

Aristophanes was one of the Ancient Greeks' most famous playwrights, and some of his works survived to the modern day, including this one.

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

Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Der Friede + Die Frösche + Die Ritter + Die Vögel + Die Wolken + Lysistrate" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Aristophanes (zwischen 450 v. Chr. und 444 v. Chr./um 380 v. Chr.)...

Frauen an die Macht! Ginge es in der Gesellschaft nicht viel gerechter zu, wenn die Athenerinnen die Staatsgeschäfte lenkten statt ihre Männer? Keiner sollte etwas besitzen, alles sollte allen gemeinsam sein – Land, Essen und auch Frauen und Kinder. Aber, fragen die Männer, will dann nicht jeder...

Strepsiades fasst einen Plan, der kaum gelingen mag: das Argumentieren erlernen und seinen Gläubiger zum Erlass der Wettschulden überreden. Selbst zu unverständig, dieses Vorhaben umzusetzen, wie der Bauer schnell merken muss, schickt er seinen Sohn bei Sokrates in die Lehre. Doch die erworbenen...