To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. This book examines the plays of the Greek comic writer Aristophanes and attempts ...

When Aristophanes, the patron saint of punctuation, was the head librarian at Alexandria's main library, writing was a mess. Those third-century Greek philosophers, speakers and politicians were ...

Aristophanes' Knights was a sensation in its time, famous for its assault on the Athenian politician and demagogue Cleon in the first comic drama devoted to a sustained, open satire of an individual ...

The leading comic author of Athens, Aristophanes, did not produce his first play until 427 BC, two years after Pericles' death. He specialized in what we would call political satire, and of his ...

There is nothing new about artists engaging in the politics of their communities. The plays of Aristophanes savaged the ...

Back in 411 BC, the Greek poet and playwright, Aristophanes, wrote Lysistrata, a comedy about a woman who rallies others in a ...