"This riotous play from ancient Greece's greatest comic dramatist blends fancy dress, earthy slapstick and political debate" --

"The Clouds" vigorously bares the folly of the old and new morality and ends hilariously with Strepsiades thrashed by his newly educated son -- while the old god Hermes has the last word. The play is set in the Athens of the 5th century B.C., where men have forgotten the gods and turned to rhetoric and dreams. Aristophanes ridicules the degenerate old order as well as the Sophistic new. -- From publisher's description

Aristófanes (445-385 a. C.) es el máximo representante de la comedia antigua. Sus once obras conservadas son el testimonio más completo de un género tan importante en la Atenas clásica como la tragedia. Son vehículos de una imaginación desbordante en los que tiene cabida la sátira, la crítica política y social, la burla despiadada y los chistes groseros. Lisístrata se estrenó en el 411 a. C., en un momento crítico para Atenas, cada vez...

"A vibrant verse translation of three key works from one of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition; combines historical accuracy with a sensitive attempt to capture the rich dramatic and literary qualities of Aristophanic comedy; features comprehensive introductions to each play, as well as detailed explanatory notes; includes an appendix containing information and selected fragments from the lost plays of Aristophanes."--Publisher's...

Classic Greek plays offer a caricature of Socrates, a flawed utopia, a clever plan to gain peace, and a debate between deceased playwrights.

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, The Clouds, Ecclesiazusae, The Frogs, The Knights, Lysistrata,...