Peace

Name: Peace
Author: Aristophanes
ISBN: 9781911535867

Author: Aristophanes
Series: Greek Comedy
Language: English
Length: 56 pages
ISBN: 9781911535867
Published: 10 November 2016
Imprint: Sovereign

Aristophanes
Greek
Athens
comic
comedy
humour
humorous
play
Greece
mythology

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Description

Trygaeus, a middle-aged Athenian, miraculously brings about a peaceful end to the Peloponnesian War, thereby earning the gratitude of farmers while bankrupting various tradesmen who had profited from the hostilities. He celebrates his triumph by marrying Harvest, a companion of Festival and Peace, all of whom he has liberated from a celestial prison.

Author

Aristophanes was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and are used to define it. Also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy, Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author.

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