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LYSISTRATA

by ARISTOPHANES ...

Lysistrata by Aristophanes is a comedic masterpiece set against the backdrop of the Peloponnesian War. In a bold attempt to end the war, the women of Greece withhold their affections from their men until peace is achieved. With Aristophanes' sharp wit and satirical approach, Lysistrata offers a humorous critique of war and gender roles. It's a classic that still rings true, challenging societal ... Read more

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Lysistrata by Aristophanes is a comedic masterpiece set against the backdrop of the Peloponnesian War. In a bold attempt to end the war, the women of Greece withhold their affections from their men until peace is achieved. With Aristophanes' sharp wit and satirical approach, Lysistrata offers a humorous critique of war and gender roles. It's a classic that still rings true, challenging societal
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The Eleven Plays of Aristophanes

by Aristophanes ...

All 11 comedies, literally translated. Two volumes in one file. Includes: Knights, Acharnians, Peace, Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Wasps, The Birds, The Frogs, The Thesmophoriazusae, The Ecclesiazusae, and Plutus. According to Wikipedia: "Aristophanes (ca. 446 BCE ca. 386 BCE), son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a prolific and much acclaimed, comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven ... Read more

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All 11 comedies, literally translated. Two volumes in one file. Includes: Knights, Acharnians, Peace, Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Wasps, The Birds, The Frogs, The Thesmophoriazusae, The Ecclesiazusae, and Plutus. According to Wikipedia: "Aristophanes (ca. 446 BCE ca. 386 BCE), son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a prolific and much acclaimed, comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven
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The Birds

by Aristophanes ...

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Wishing to escape the nonsense of the city – laws, wars, politicians, who needs ‘em? – a pair of Athenians decide to leave civilization behind and live among the birds. However, not even utopia is free from their very human desire for advancement, no matter how far from society the two men find themselves. Soon the Athenians establish an empire of birds, and plot to steal the scepter of heaven ... Read more

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Wishing to escape the nonsense of the city – laws, wars, politicians, who needs ‘em? – a pair of Athenians decide to leave civilization behind and live among the birds. However, not even utopia is free from their very human desire for advancement, no matter how far from society the two men find themselves. Soon the Athenians establish an empire of birds, and plot to steal the scepter of heaven
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The Complete Harvard Classics 2024 Edition [newly updated]

by Benjamin Franklin, Plato, William Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, John Woolman, William Penn, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne, Robert Burns, Saint Augustine, Thomas á Kempis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Cicero, Adam Smith, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Virgil, Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Anonymous, Aesop, Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Andersen, John Dryden, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Oliver Goldsmith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Manzoni, Homer, Richard Henry Dana Jr, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich von Schiller, Michael Faraday, Hermann von Helmholtz, Lord Kelvin, Simon Newcomb, Sir Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Immanuel Kant, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Tacitus, Philiip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Sir Thomas Malory, William Harrison, Niccolò Machiavelli, William Roper, Sir Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Charles Lyell, Confucius, Christian, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Blaise Pascal, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Bret Harte, Samuel L. Clemens, Edward Everett Hale, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Juan Valera, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alexander L. Kielland ...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of ... Read more

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This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of
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Aristophanes: The Complete Plays

by Aristophanes ...

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, ... Read more

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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,
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Lysistrata and Other Plays

by Aristophanes ...

Translated by Alan H. Sommerstein ...

The Acharnians/The Clouds/Lysistrata'We women have the salvation of Greece in our hands'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 Lysistrata and The Acharnians, two pleas for an end to the long war between Athens and Sparta, a band of women on a sex strike ... Read more

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The Acharnians/The Clouds/Lysistrata'We women have the salvation of Greece in our hands'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 Lysistrata and The Acharnians, two pleas for an end to the long war between Athens and Sparta, a band of women on a sex strike
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The Birds (Annotated)

by Aristophanes ...

The plot of the play revolves around Pisthetaerus, an Athenian who convinces the birds to create a great city in the sky, and thus regain their status as the original gods. Pisthetaerus eventually transforms into a bird-like god himself, and replaces Zeus as the king of the gods. ... Read more

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The plot of the play revolves around Pisthetaerus, an Athenian who convinces the birds to create a great city in the sky, and thus regain their status as the original gods. Pisthetaerus eventually transforms into a bird-like god himself, and replaces Zeus as the king of the gods.
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The Complete Harvard Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature

All 71 Volumes - The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Thomas Carlyle, Plato, Charles Darwin, Dante Alighieri, Euripides, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Lamb, Samuel Johnson, John Stuart Mill, David Hume, Joseph Addison, Leigh Hunt, Epictetus, Thomas De Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jonathan Swift, Christopher Marlowe, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, William Hazlitt, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Daniel Defoe, Aesop, Richard Henry Dana, John Dryden, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, John Ruskin, Robert Burns, David Garrick, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Izaak Walton, John Bunyan, Homer, Edmund Burke, Plutarch, Molière, Aeschylus, Sophocles, William Makepeace Thackeray, Benjamin Franklin, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Robert Browning, Oliver Goldsmith, John Milton, Aristophanes, Virgil, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, William Penn, Philip Sidney, Francis Bacon, Adam Smith, Alessandro Manzoni, Abraham Cowley, Ben Jonson, John Woolman, Sydney Smith, Marcus Aurelius, Hans Christian Andersen, George Gordon Byron, Thomas à Kempis, Richard Steele, Thomas Browne, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Miguel de Cervantes, Friedrich von Schiller, Pliny the Younger, Saint Augustine ...

e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited collection. The Harvard Classics in 51 volumes include the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In addition – there are 20 volumes of the greatest works of fiction. Content: The Harvard Classics: V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius V. 3: Bacon, Milton, Browne ... Read more

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e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited collection. The Harvard Classics in 51 volumes include the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In addition – there are 20 volumes of the greatest works of fiction. Content: The Harvard Classics: V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius V. 3: Bacon, Milton, Browne
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The Clouds

by Aristophanes ...

Aristophanes was an ancient Greek comic playwright. Aristophanes is known as the Father of Comedy and his surviving plays provide some of the most accurate portrayals of life in ancient Athens. This edition of The Clouds includes a table of contents. ... Read more

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Aristophanes was an ancient Greek comic playwright. Aristophanes is known as the Father of Comedy and his surviving plays provide some of the most accurate portrayals of life in ancient Athens. This edition of The Clouds includes a table of contents.
... Read more
Frogs and Other Plays

by Aristophanes, Shomit Dutta ...

The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In The Frogs, written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a great debate to help him decide between the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus and the brilliant ... Read more

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The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In The Frogs, written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a great debate to help him decide between the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus and the brilliant
... Read more
Greek and Roman Mythology - World's Best Collection

50+ Legendary Works – Complete Works of Euripides, Homer, Ovid, Sophocles and Many More

by Homer, Ovid, Hesiod, Aesop, Euripides, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Apollonius, Apulieus, Virgil, Sophocles ...

The Ultimate Greek and Roman Mythology CollectionThis is the world’s best Greek and Roman Mythology collection available, including the most complete set of all the ancient Greek and Roman writer’s works plus many extra free bonus materials.The Most Complete Mythology Collection AvailableIn this irresistible, must-have collection you get All the Legendary Ancient Writers, such as Homer, Virgil and ... Read more

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The Ultimate Greek and Roman Mythology CollectionThis is the world’s best Greek and Roman Mythology collection available, including the most complete set of all the ancient Greek and Roman writer’s works plus many extra free bonus materials.The Most Complete Mythology Collection AvailableIn this irresistible, must-have collection you get All the Legendary Ancient Writers, such as Homer, Virgil and
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Lysistrata

A Play

by Aristophanes ...

Considered the Greek playwright's greatest work: "A bawdy antiwar comedy [about] one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War" (Classical Literature).First presented in 411 BC, Lysistrata is one of the great works from the classical age of drama. It is the third and concluding play in Aristophanes's War and Peace series and portrays a humorous battle of the sexes.In the twenty ... Read more

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Considered the Greek playwright's greatest work: "A bawdy antiwar comedy [about] one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War" (Classical Literature).First presented in 411 BC, Lysistrata is one of the great works from the classical age of drama. It is the third and concluding play in Aristophanes's War and Peace series and portrays a humorous battle of the sexes.In the twenty
... Read more

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