Aristophanes

Titles in Classical category:

• Acharnians, The

  This is the first of the series of three Comedies--'The Acharnians,' 'Peace' and 'Lysistrata'--produced at intervals of years, the sixth, tenth and twenty-first of the Peloponnesian War, and impressing on the Athenian people the miseries and disasters due to it and to the scoundrels who by ...

• Birds, The

  'The Birds' differs markedly from all the other Comedies of Aristophanes which have come down to us in subject and general conception. It is just an extravaganza pure and simple--a graceful, whimsical theme chosen expressly for the sake of the opportunities it afforded of bright, amusing ...

• Clouds, The

  Strepsiades
  Phidippides
  Servant of Strepsiades
  Disciples of Socrates
  Socrates
  Chorus of Clouds
  Just Cause
  Unjust Cause
  Pasias
  Amynias
  Witness
  Chaerephon

• Peace

  The 'Peace' was brought out four years after 'The Acharnians' (422 B.C.), when the War had already lasted ten years. The leading motive is the same as in the former play--the intense desire of the less excitable and more moderate-minded citizens for relief from the miseries of war.