![]() ![]() With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. ![]() The darker comedy of The Clouds satirizes Athenian philosophers, Socrates in particular, and reflects the uncertainties of a generation in which all traditional religious and ethical beliefs were being challenged.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta. Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. ![]() Three plays by the comedian of Ancient Greece ![]()
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