Name: Aristophanes: Lysistrata and Other Plays
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Aristophanes: Lysistrata and Other Plays

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Aristophanes: Lysistrata and Other PlaysPenguin Classics Lysistrata The Acharnians The Clouds Writing at a time of political and social crisis in Athens, the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes was an eloquent, yet bawdy, challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. In Lysistrata and The Acharnians, two pleas for an end to the long war between Athens and Sparta, a band of women on a sex strike and a lone peasant respectively defeat the political establishment. The darker comedy of

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The Latin poet Ovid was famously exiled by the Emperor Augustus to the shores of the Black Sea for his self-confessed crimes of 'a poem and a mistake'

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Late antique court poetry

οι μόνες κουβέντες που είχε πει στη ζωή του ήταν «τα ρέστα σας»

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