Aristophanes
Aristophanes was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete today. These provide the most valuable examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are used to define it, along with fragments from dozens of lost plays by Aristophanes and his contemporaries.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
Travel back in time to ancient Athens, where political satire and outrageous characters collide in a hilarious commentary on society's follies.
By Aristophanes
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2
In ancient Athens, a son's desperate attempts to cure his father's unhealthy obsession with jury duty leads to uproarious antics and a sharp jab at the city's legal system.
By Aristophanes
The Frogs
A god travels to the underworld with his slave to resurrect a playwright and restore greatness to Greek tragedy.
By Aristophanes
The Birds
Tired of their lives, two Athenians hatch a crazy scheme to rule both gods and humans by building a city in the clouds.
By Aristophanes
The Clouds
A desperate father sends his son to a questionable school to learn how to cheat his way out of debt, leading to chaos and laughter.
By Aristophanes
Lysistrata
To end a long war, the women of Greece decide to use their greatest power, love, as leverage, leading to a hilarious battle of the sexes.
By Aristophanes
The Acharnians
Fed up with endless war, one man makes a daring move to secure his own personal peace, challenging the war-loving ideals of his fellow citizens.
By Aristophanes
Peace
Fed up with endless conflict, one man risks everything to retrieve a captured goddess and restore harmony to a war-torn world.
By Aristophanes