Lysistrata and Other Plays - Penguin Classics

Aristophanes (c447-c385BC), a contemporary of Socrates, was the last and greatest of the Old Attic comedians. Only eleven of his plays survive, and this volume contains 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...