Beschrijving

This volume gathers four of the great Athenian comic dramatist Aristophanes’ plays — Lysistrata, The Thesmophoriazusae, The Ecclesiazusae, and Plutus — in a scholarly edition. The translation by Benjamin Bickley Rogers renders the ancient Greek with clarity and fidelity, while the edition presents the texts with facing-Greek and English, making it suitable for both students and general readers.

In Lysistrata, the women of Athens stage a sex‐strike to force the men to end the Peloponnesian War; The Thesmophoriazusae treats women’s power and political disruption when women seize the assembly; The Ecclesiazusae satirises a women’s takeover of government; and Plutus explores the arrival of wealth in a morally divided society. Throughout these plays Aristophanes uses humour, satire, bodily comedy and pointed social commentary to critique war, gender relations, democracy and wealth.

Because this edition is part of the prestigious Loeb Classical Library, it provides the original Greek text and a facing-page English translation, making it an excellent resource for scholars of classical literature and theatre, as well as curious readers interested in how comedy both entertains and engages serious civic issues.