Lysistrata

by Aristophanes · language: en

Vocabulary level: Upper-intermediate · Flesch–Kincaid grade 6 · 910 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Aristophanes — Translations into English · Comedy plays · Greece — History — Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. — Drama · Greek drama (Comedy) — Translations into English

Words worth knowing: fresher · aesthetic · brazier · skein · dawdle · coarseness · crowbar · pyre

LYSISTRATA Translated from the Greek of ARISTOPHANES Illustrations by Norman Lindsay FOREWORD Lysistrata is the greatest work by Aristophanes.

This blank and rash statement is made that it may be rejected.

But first let it be understood that I do not mean it is a better written work than the Birds or the Frogs, or that (to descend to the scale of values that will be naturally imputed to me) it has any more appeal to the collectors of "curious literature" than the Ecclesiazusae or the Thesmophoriazusae.

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