- great_books_of_the_western_world, Translations into English, Greek drama (Comedy), open_syllabus_project
The wasps - The poet and the women - The frogs; Aristophanes was the last and greatest of the Old Attic Comedians - Today much of the humour and fantasy seems oddly contemporary.
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Comic, classical in form, warm and prestige.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Aristophanes
- First published
- 1835
- Pages
- 152
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press, Clarendon Press, Macmillan
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- und, grc, English, gre
- ISBN
- 9780714215563
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First sentence
“Some lonely mountainous district in the east of Ireland one or more centuries ago.”
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