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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in ancient Greek drama and classical literature
- Readers who want to see an early expression of anti-war themes in Western comedy
- Literature lovers with English reading ability who are willing to engage with a classic translation
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting the easy laughs of modern stage comedy
- Readers with no ancient Greek historical background who are unwilling to look anything up
- Readers who struggle with English and want only a Chinese translation
Reading tips
- Spend ten minutes before reading on the general background of the Peloponnesian War; the satirical targets will be easier to recognize
- Track the characters' motives as you read—the comic plot jumps around, and sorting out the threads reduces confusion
- If time is limited, read the key scenes first, then go back and read the whole play
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Aristophanes (c. 446 BCE–c. 385 BCE) was a comic poet of ancient Athens and the foremost representative of Old Comedy. Public sources on his life are limited, and later readers have come to know his work chiefly through his plays. Tradition holds that he wrote about forty comedies, of which eleven survive, including The Clouds, The Acharnians, The Birds and Lysistrata; the library holds seventeen of his works. His plays often take Athenian political and social life as their subject, using exaggerated plots and fantastic invention to mount sharp satire, and their witty, imaginative language had a profound influence on the later development of European comedy.
