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Aristophanes: Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes; Sommerstein, Alan H. is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>The Acharnians/The Clouds/Lysistrata<br><br>'We women have the salvation of Greece in our hands'<br><br>Writing at a time of political and social crisis in Athens, the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes was an eloquent, yet bawdy, challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. In <i>Lysistrata</i> and <i>The Acharnians</i>, two pleas for an end to the long war between Athens and Sparta, a band of women on a sex strike and a lone peasant respectively defeat the political establishment.
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- Author
- Aristophanes; Sommerstein, Alan H.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780141907017
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Collections
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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