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Peace

by Aristophanes

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Read by Phil Chenevert · 1 h 42 min · 4 parts

  1. Scene I

    13:00

  2. Scene II

    28:11

  3. Scene III

    21:55

  4. Scene IV

    39:28

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A farmer's effort to question Zeus about Greece's troubles begins with two servants preparing food for an enormous beetle. Trygaeus plans to ride the creature into the sky, while his daughters press him to explain his departure. The combination of household worries, an improbable flying mount and appeals to the gods gives this Greek comedy a deliberately earthy approach to the costs of war.

Later dialogue brings the personified Peace into conversation with Hermes and Trygaeus. Through jokes about public speakers, rejected truces and poets seeking payment, Aristophanes connects the wish for peace with the choices made in civic life. The English translation includes explanatory footnotes for names, puns and customs.

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Aristophanes

Aristophanes was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens. He wrote forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete. The majority of his surviving plays belong to the genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are considered its most valuable examples.

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Reading time
About 70 minutes
Pages
45
Language
English
Genre
Satire
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Phil Chenevert