by Aristophanes · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780146001666
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«Lysistrata» is a comedy by the Greek playwright Aristophanes, published by Penguin Books in paperback (96 pages, in English).
Satirical comedy set during the Peloponnesian War: the women of Athens and Sparta, led by Lysistrata, go on a sex strike and occupy the Acropolis to force the men to make peace. The play is an anti-war farce that plays with gender roles in classical Greece.
This Penguin Books edition is part of the Penguin 60s Classics collection and includes the English translation by Alan H. Sommerstein.
Aimed at readers of classical theatre and Greek comedy, including school audiences due to its brevity.
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. Aristophanes's plays were performed at the religious festivals of Athens, mostly the City Dionysia and the Lenaia, and several of them won the first prize in their respective competitions.
