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Aristophanes: Birds and Other PlaysOxford World's Classics Birds Lysistrata Assembly Women Wealth Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, the exuberant, satirical form of festival drama which flourished during the heyday of classical Athenian culture in the fifth century BC. His plays are characterized by extraordinary combinations of fantasy and satire, sophistication and vulgarity, formality and freedom. Birds is an escapist fantasy in which two

contemplates religious sacrifice and the insanity of war

and includes biographies of every emperor from Hadrian to Heliogabalus - among them the godlike Marcus Antonius and his grotesquely corrupt son Commodus

it kicks off a ten-year battle between the Greeks and the Trojans

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The essays are accompanied by David Stuttard's English translation which is performer-friendly

the comic playwright's translation and adaptation practices

AD 66) but possibly of Flavian or Trajanic date

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the gods become more closely involved in the action

At the end of his life the emperor Augustus wrote an account of his achievements in which he reviewed his rise to power

Volume I: Creation

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