LysistrataThis rollicking new translation of Aristophanes' comic masterpiece is rendered in blank verse for dialogue and in lyric meters and free verse for the songs. Appended commentary essays--on Athenian democracy, ancient Greek warfare, Athenian women, and Greek Comedy--offer lively and informative discussions not only of Aristophanes, but of the broader fifth-century social, political, and cultural context as well. |
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Acropolis actors Aeschylus ancient Aphrodite Aristophanes army Artemis Assembly Athe ATHENIAN AMBASSADOR Athenian women Athens Attica audience Boeotian CALONICE Castor and Polydeuces century B.C.E. character CHORUS OF OLD CINESIAS citizens City Dionysia city-state Cleisthenes cloak comic Council of Five COUNCILOR dance Delian League deme Dionysus drama dress drinking Euripides exits female festival fight fought girl give goddess gods going Greek world guard holy Homer Hoplite husbands joke Laconian LAMPITO Lenaea Literally look LYSISTRATA male Melanion MEN'S ment military modern MYRRHINE myth never nian Old Comedy OLD WOMAN peace Peloponnesian Peloponnesian War Pericles Persian Pisistratus play political probably prytaneis radical democracy ritual role scene sexual Sicilian expedition slaves song SPARTAN AMBASSADOR SPARTAN HERALD stage building swear There's thing tophanes tragedy tragic UNITED CHORUS LEADER what's wife WOMEN'S CHORUS LEADER Zeus