Birds and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
by Aristophanes
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- ISBN 10
- 0192824082
- ISBN 13
- 9780192824080
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Synopsis
The plays in this volume all contain Aristophanes' trademark bawdy comedy and dazzling verbal agility. In The Birds , two frustrated Athenians join the birds to build the utopian city of 'Much Cuckoo in the Clouds'. The Knights is a venomous satire on Cleon, a prominent Athenian demagogue, while The Assembly Women deals with the battle of the sexes as the women of Athens infiltrate the all-male Assembly in disguise. The lengthy conflict with Sparta is the subject of Peace , inspired by the hope of a settlement in 421 BC, and Wealth reflects on the economic catastrophe that hit Athens after the war.
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- Bookseller
- Colorado's Used Bookstore, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 375815
- Title
- Birds and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
- Author
- Aristophanes
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0192824082
- ISBN 13
- 9780192824080
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Place of Publication
- 297
- Date Published
- May 1999
- Pages
- 384
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