Aristophanes: Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays: A new verse translation, with introduction and notes (Oxford World's Classics) [2016] paperback NATUR In a fleeting fourteen year

In a fleeting fourteen year period

'A striking debut about love and redemption

it's clear someone is sending her a warning

Milos Forman

Aristophanes: Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays: A new verse translation, with introduction and notes (Oxford World's Classics) [2016] paperback NATUR In a fleeting fourteen yearAristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their brilliant combination of fantasy and satire, their constantly inventive manipulation of language, and their use of absurd characters and plots to expose his society's institutions and