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The Complete Plays Of Aristophanes by MOSES HADAS, Aristophanes, Moses Hadas, Benjamin Bickley Rogers, Robert Henning Webb, Jack Lindsay, edited and with an introduction by Moses Hadas is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Extravagant power of invention and remarkable comic vitality make Aristophanes one of the most brilliant of the ancient Greek playwrights. From the hilariously bawdy yet fundamentally serious play, \"Lysistrata\", to the creative fantasy of the \"Birds\", to his comic masterpiece, the \"Frogs\", Aristophanes displays the biting satire, exquisite lyricism and licentious frankness that continue to make audiences laugh at the immensity of their own follies. A poet who hated an age of decadence, armed conflict and departure from tradition, Aristophanes' comic genius influenced the political and social order of his own fifth-century Athens. His true claim upon our attention is as the most brilliant and artistic and thoughtful wit our world has known. [Back cover] A poet who hated an age of decadence, armed conflict, and departure from tradition, Aristophanes' comic genius influenced the political and social order of his own fifth-century Athens. But as Moses Hadas writes in his introduction to this volume, 'His true claim upon our attention is as the most brilliant and artistic and thoughtful wit our world has known.' Includes The Acharnians, The Birds, The Clouds, Ecclesiazusae, The Fr

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Author

MOSES HADAS, Aristophanes, Moses Hadas, Benjamin Bickley Rogers, Robert Henning Webb, Jack Lindsay, edited and with an introduction by Moses Hadas

Publisher

Bantam Classics

Published

1962

Language

EN

ISBN

9780553902594

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

4.21 / 5 (1,776 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14