**Capturing the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquity's greatest comedies, Aaron Poochigian's Aristophanes: Four Plays brings these classic dramas to vivid life for a twenty-first century audience.** The citizens of ancient Athens enjoyed a freedom of speech as broad as our own.
Designing Women: Aristophanes' Lysistrata and the "Hetairization" of the Greek Wife
β Scribed by Stroup, Sarah Culpepper
- Book ID
- 115518091
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 441 KB
- Volume
- 37
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1080-6504
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