Lysistrata (version 3): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Lysistrata (version 3), credited to Aristophanes, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Lysistrata (version 3) by Aristophanes. (Translated by Jack Lindsay.) Read in English by Phil Chenevert The women of Athens are sick of the Peloponnesian war that has dragged on for year after year after year, causing great hardship to everyone. They decide to deny the men sex until they agree to make peace, using the one thing that perhaps men enjoy more than killing each other. Does it work? Listen and find out. This comedy by Aristophanes was first performed in 411 BC

Recording facts

• Recording title: Lysistrata (version 3)
• Author credits: Aristophanes
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 3
• Listed recording duration: 1:39:48

Catalogue topics

• Greek
• aristophenes

Track guide

1. 01 - Scene I: In a public square at Athens — 20:48
2. 02 - Scene II: Afterwards, before the gates of the Acropolis, — 36:07
3. 03 - Scene III: Within the precincts of the citadel. — 42:53

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