Peace: Play Guide and Free Edition
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Peace is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Aristophanes (-450–-388).
Catalogue synopsis
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"Peace" by Aristophanes is an Athenian Old Comedy written in 421 BC. A middle-aged Athenian flies to heaven on a giant dung beetle to rescue Peace from imprisonment and end the Peloponnesian War. His mission earns farmers' gratitude while bankrupting war profiteers. The play celebrates an idyllic return to countryside life with joyous anticipation, yet tempers optimism with bitter acknowledgment of lost opportunities. Through wildly absurd action and savage satire, Aristophanes lampoons politicians who profited from war.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Peace
- Author credits: Aristophanes (-450–-388)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Aristophanes -- Translations into English
- Comedy plays
- Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. -- Drama
- Greek drama (Comedy) -- Translations into English
- Peace treaties -- Drama
Gutenberg collections
- Category: Classics of Literature
- Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
- Classical Antiquity
- One Act Plays
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