Aristophanes
Up one levelPlays by Aristophanes, the classical Greek dramatist.
- Ecclesiazusae
- Lysistrata
- Peace
- Plutus
- The Acharnians
- The Birds
- The Clouds
- Aristophanes's depiction of Socrates in the Clouds is in good part a comic distortion.
- The Frogs
- The Frogs turns upon the decline of tragic art.
- The Knights
- The Knights may be reckoned the Aristophanes's masterpiece, a direct personal attack on the then all-powerful Cleon.
- The Thesmophoriazusae
- Following Lysistrata during the reign of terror established by oligarchist conspirators, this play has a proper intrigue, a knot which is not untied till quite the end.
- The Wasps
- The purpose of this play was to satirize the love of litigation common to the Athenians, whose delight it was to spend their time in the law-courts.