The Complete Plays of Aristophanes
- ISBN-10
- 0553213431
- ISBN-13
- 9780553213430
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 501
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1981
- Publisher
- Bantam Classics
- Author
- Aristophanes
Description
Background information and brief introductions accompany eleven satiric plays by the fifth century B.C. playwright, in an anthology that contains such classic and inventive works as The Birds, The Frogs, and Lysistrata. Reissue.
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