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The Acharnians

Author
Aristophanes
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
1 hour 12 minutes
ISBN
9781802567373
Published
7 July 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Aristophanes
  • Greek
  • Athens
  • comic
  • comedy
  • humour
  • humorous
  • play
  • Greece
  • mythology

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Description

Hear Aristophanes' The Acharnians unabridged: Dicaeopolis, tired of the Peloponnesian War, buys a private peace with Sparta while Athens still fights. Listen as the charcoal-burners hunt him down, then as his market opens — wine, eels, Lamachus the general as the joke of militarism. Spoken 425 BC: appetite and insult against the Assembly's noise, peace heard as a full larder rather than a pamphlet in a helmet.

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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