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  • eBook released: January 1, 423
  • Genre: Satire

Wasps

Aristophanes
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Aristophanes’ “Wasps” is a classic Greek comedy that was first produced in 422 BCE at the Lenaia festival. The play is known for its satirical portrayal of the Athenian legal system and the demagogue Cleon. It features a chorus of old men who are described as wasps, symbolizing their stinging and persistent nature as jurors in the Athenian courts.

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Aristophanes

Aristophanes wrote comedies in Athens while the city was losing a long war, and put living people on stage under their own names: Socrates in a basket in The Clouds, Cleon the politician, Euripides. Lysistrata has the women of Greece refuse sex until the men…

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