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The Wasps, The Poet and the Women, The Frogs by Aristophanes Penguin Paperback
The Wasps, The Poet and the Women, The Frogs by Aristophanes Penguin Paperback
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The master of ancient Greek drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In The Frogs, Dionysus descends into the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour. He stages a great debate to help him decide between the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus & the brilliant modernity of Euripides. This clash of generations & values is also the subject of The Wasps, in which an old-fashioned father and his loose-living son come to blows and end up in court. Meanwhile in The Poet and The Women, Euripides - accused of misogyny - persuades a relative to infiltrate an all-women festival to find out if revenge is being plotted against him.
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