Author : Aristophanes
Release : 1977
Genre : Drama
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The Knights ; [and], Peace ; [and], The Birds ; [and], The Assemblywomen ; [and], Wealth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Knights ; [and], Peace ; [and], The Birds ; [and], The Assemblywomen ; [and], Wealth write by Aristophanes. This book was released on 1977. The Knights ; [and], Peace ; [and], The Birds ; [and], The Assemblywomen ; [and], Wealth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, the exuberant, satirical form of festival drama which flourished during the heyday of classical Athenian culture in the fifth century BC. His plays are characterized by extraordinary combinations of fantasy and satire, sophistication and vulgarity, formality and freedom. Birds is an escapist fantasy in which two dissatisfied Athenians, in defiance of men and gods, bring about a city of birds, the eponymous Cloudcuckooland. In Lysistrata the heroine of the play organizes a sex-strike and the wives of Athens occupy the Akropolis in an attempt to restore peace to the city. The main source of comedy in the Assembly-Women is a similar usurpation of male power as the women attempt to reform Athenian society along utopian-communist lines. Finally, Wealth is Aristophanes' last surviving comedy, in which Ploutos, the god of wealth is cured of his blindness and the remarkable social consequences of his new discrimination are exemplified.