The Eleven Comedies of Aristophanes

This Halcyon Classics ebook contains the eleven extant comedies by the ancient Athenian playwright Aristophanes.  One of the foremost of the Old Comedy playwrights, Aristophanes penned at least thirty additional works which have not survived.  Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.

• The Knights
• The Acharnians
• Peace
• Lysistrata
• The Clouds
• The Wasps
• The Birds
• The Frogs
• The Thesmophoriazusae
• The Ecclesiazusae
• Plutus (Wealth, second version)

Aristophanes (c.446 BC - c.386 BC) was a comic playwright of ancient Athens.  Eleven of his approximately forty plays survive, providing modern understanding of the Old Comedy genre.  Little is known of his personal life.