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...
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The 11 Comedies - Volume 2
This volume collects six of the eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes: The Wasps - a satire on the Athenian jury system, featuring an elderly juror obsessed with court proceedings The Birds - two Athenians plot a utopian colony in the sky to outsmart the gods...
This volume collects six of the eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes: The Wasps - a satire on the Athenian jury system, featuring an elderly juror obsessed with court proceedings The Birds - two Athenians plot a utopian colony in the sky to outsmart the gods...