The Complete Plays of Aristophanes
ACHARNIANS * KNIGHTS * CLOUDS * WASPS
* PEACE * BIRDS * LYSISTRATA * THESMOPHORIAZUSAE
ECCLESIAZUSAE * FROGS * PLUTUS
Extravagant power of invention and remarkable comic vitality make Aristophanes one
of the most brilliant of the ancient Greek playwrights. From the hilariously bawdy yet fundamentally serious play LYSISTRATA.
to the creative fantasy of the BIRDS, to his comic masterpiece the FROGS, Aristophanes
displays the biting satire, exquisite tyricism, and licentious frankness that continue to make audiences laugh at the immensity of their own follies.
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 intro duction to this volume,
"His true claim upon our attention is as the most brilliant and artistic and thoughtful wit our world has known."
Edited and with an introduction by Moses Hadas