Lysistrata (Signet Classics) - Softcover

Aristophanes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451527895 ISBN 13: 9780451527899

Publisher: Signet, 2001

Synopsis

Led by Lysistrata, the women of Athens use sex as a weapon against their husbands in their revolt against war, in this satirical comedy first produced in the fifth century B.C., in a modern translation accompanied by detailed notes, glossary, and authoritative introduction. Reissue.

About this title

About the Author:

Aristophanes was born, probably in Athens, c. 449 BC and died between 386 and 380 BC. Little is known about his life, but there is a portrait of him in Plato's Symposium. He was twice threatened with prosecution in the 420s for his outspoken attacks on the prominent politician Cleon, but in 405 he was publicly honored and crowned for promoting Athenian civic unity in The Frogs. Aristophanes had his first comedy produced when he was about twenty-one, and wrote forty plays in all. The eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes are published in the Penguin Classics series as The Birds and Other Plays, Lysistrata and Other Plays, and The Wasps/The Poet and the Women/The Frogs.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Greek

About this edition

• Publisher: Signet
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0451527895
• ISBN 13: 9780451527899
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Arrowsmith William