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Olson's edition of the play, which replaces Platnauer's of 1969, is based on a complete new collation of the manuscripts, many of which have never been adequately reported before. The extensive commentary explores matters of all sorts, but it focuses in particular on the realities... Read Full Overview

Produced in 421 B.C., Peace is, in one respect, unique among Aristophanes' plays. The typical Aristophanic plot takes its start from something that is wrong with the current state of Athenian life and which, while it may be capable in principle of being corrected, stands... Read Full Overview

Aristophanes' Peace was performed at the City Dionysia in Athens in 421 B.C. as a decade-long war with Sparta seemed finally to be drawing to an end, and is one of only eleven extant plays by the greatest Old Comic poet. Olson's edition of the play, which replaces Platnauer's... Read Full Overview

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Aristophanes' Peace is a classical Athenian comedy that satirizes war and celebrates the restoration of harmony through wit, absurdity, and political insight.

In Peace, first performed in 421 BCE during the Peloponnesian War, Aristophanes presents the... Read Full Overview

Aristophanis Pax, edited by Julius Hermann Richter, presents the ancient Greek comedy "Peace" (Ειρήνη) by Aristophanes. This edition offers readers an opportunity to engage with one of the most beloved works of classical Greek literature... Read Full Overview

In Peace, produced in 421 B.C., Aristophanes celebrates in anticipation the conclusion, after ten years, of the great war with Sparta. Peace, we are made to see, is within the grasp of the Greek peoples; let them make one final effort, and all difficulties and dangers will evaporate... Read Full Overview

Aristophanes' Peace is a classical Athenian comedy that satirizes war and celebrates the restoration of harmony through wit, absurdity, and political insight.

In Peace, first performed in 421 BCE during the Peloponnesian War, Aristophanes presents the... Read Full Overview

The Peace of Aristophanes is a play written by Aristophanes, a Greek comic playwright, in 421 BC. The play is a satire on the Peloponnesian War, which was fought between Athens and Sparta. The main character, Trygaeus, is a farmer who is fed up with the war and decides to travel... Read Full Overview

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections
such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,
or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe... Read Full Overview