Lysistrata

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Lysistrata
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Aristophanes
Translated by Douglass Parker
Afterword by Judith Fletcher
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:144
Dimensions(mm): Height 171,Width 106
Category/GenreLiterary studies - general
Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Historical adventure
ISBN/Barcode 9780451531247
ClassificationsDewey:782.407
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint Signet
Publication Date 7 April 2009
Publication Country United States

Description

In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war.

Author Biography

Aristophanes was born, probably in Athens, c. 449 BC and died between 386 and 380 BC. Little is known about his life, but there is a portrait of him in Plato's Symposium. He was twice threatened with prosecution in the 420s for his outspoken attacks on the prominent politician Cleon, but in 405 he was publicly honored and crowned for promoting Athenian civic unity in The Frogs. Aristophanes had his first comedy produced when he was about twenty-one, and wrote forty plays in all. The eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes are published in the Penguin Classics series as The Birds and Other Plays, Lysistrata and Other Plays, and The Wasps/The Poet and the Women/The Frogs.

Reviews

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