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The Frogs and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
The Frogs and Other Plays - Penguin Classics Author:Aristophanes Aristophanes [c. 445 - c. 385 B.C.E.] was the last and greatest of the Old Attic Comedians. Eleven of his plays survive and this collection contains The Wasps, ones of the earliest, The Poet and the Women [Thesmohphoriazusae], a gem of parody and low comedy, and The Frogs, a comic masterpiece written under the... more » shadow of defeat. A century later the Old Comedy was already thought crude and old-fashioned, yet today much of the humor and fantasy seems oddly contemporary. At the same time Aristophanes has a way of letting the reader right into the spirit of Athens during the long, tragic war against Sparta.« less