Aristophanes

Lysistrata by Aristophanes ( Book )
573 editions published between 1515 and 2010 in 29 languages and held by 3,030 libraries worldwide
In Aristophanes' most popular play, sex is a powerful agent of reconciliation. As war ravages ancient Greece, a band of women, led by Lysistrata, promise to deny their husbands all sex until they stop fighting. This volume of Lysistrata brings the play up to date with modern scholarship, providing an account of its history and containing new information about the comic theater and its social and political context. Lysistrata not only brims with topical references to social life, religion, and politics in classical Athens; it is also one of the best sources for information on the life of women in antiquity, offering a unique glimpse of their everyday life.

The birds by Aristophanes ( Book )
489 editions published between 1528 and 2010 in 20 languages and held by 2,888 libraries worldwide
This is the first comprehensive edition in any language of the Birds, a play generally recognized as one of Aristophanes' masterpieces - both for its imaginative plot and for the charm and originality of its lyrics. The commentary gives generous help with the translation, to cater for the less advanced student of Greek, and also with interpretation and the lyric metres, as well as fully discussing the staging. It uses the resources of modern ornithology to elucidate Aristophanes' references to birds. The introduction discusses the nature of the play; its historical and mythological background; the history of the text, including the contributions of ancient scholars recorded in the scholia, which are exceptionally important in this play; and also more recent scholarship.

The frogs by Aristophanes ( Book )
689 editions published between 1524 and 2010 in 20 languages and held by 2,495 libraries worldwide
Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature in general. It merits a much more extensive commentary than it has so far received, for the establishment of the text itself has rested for over a century on collations which were inadequate and inaccurate. At the same time, its most problematic passages have been the subject, in recent years, of more scholarly articles than those of any other Greek play.

The complete Greek drama : all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations ( Book )
1 edition published in 1938 in English and held by 2,295 libraries worldwide

Clouds by Aristophanes ( Book )
645 editions published between 1521 and 2009 in 22 languages and held by 1,806 libraries worldwide
The Catholic University of America Speech and Drama Department presents Aristophanes' "The Clouds," translated by William Arrowsmith, directed by Leo Brady, choral interpretation by Josephine McGarry Callan, setting and lighting by James D. Waring, costumes by Joseph Lewis.

The Acharnians by Aristophanes ( Book )
703 editions published between 1540 and 2010 in 20 languages and held by 1,785 libraries worldwide
A farcical comedy about war and peace.

Aristophanes by Aristophanes ( Book )
270 editions published between 1586 and 2007 in 8 languages and held by 1,636 libraries worldwide
Offers plays by one of the world's greatest comic dramatists in a bilingual edition.

The wasps by Aristophanes ( Book )
230 editions published between 1528 and 2008 in 14 languages and held by 1,581 libraries worldwide
A farce dealing with the antics of the Athenian jurors.

Ecclesiazusae by Aristophanes ( Book )
136 editions published between 1815 and 2010 in 13 languages and held by 1,267 libraries worldwide
Written in the century following the defeat of Athens by the Spartans in the Peloponnesian War, these four plays signal a change of emphasis in stage comedy more appropriate to the new world order of the fourth century BC. Aristophanes is the only Greek playwright whose work spans the fifth and fourth centuries BC and links the direct slapstick and bawdy of Old Comedy to the more subtle situational New Comedy. Women in Power and Wealth complete the cycle of Aristophanes's extant plays begun in Aristophanes Plays: One and Plays: Two, translated by Kenneth McLeish. Writing seventy years after Aristophanes's death, Menander's only complete surviving works, The Malcontent and The Woman from Samos are here translated by J. Michael Walton. Kenneth McLeish and J. Michael Walton provide full introductions, discussing the plays and placing them in their political and social context.

Fifteen Greek plays ( Book )
8 editions published between 1943 and 1958 in English and held by 1,187 libraries worldwide