Lysistrata and Other Plays | 
pickProduced at a time when the Peloponnesian War was in its 6th year, this play in the style of Old Comedy tells the tale of Dikaiopolis, who brokers a private peace treaty with the Spartans. It's sharply satiric & absurdist, though requiring a lot of footnotes to get the gist of the local jokes. None of the Athenian elite get away with their dignity intact when Aristophanes' wields the pen. It's also extremely bawdy & the phallus reigns supreme 🍆😶
merelybookish Great review! I'm so impressed you're reading Shakespeare & Ancient Greek drama! 3y
quietlycuriouskate You've just taken me right back to my A-levels! 😆 3y
batsy @merelybookish Thanks 😊 The plays are surprisingly very readable and something I've started to look forward to each week—like Shakespeare some of their norms make my mouth hang open, but some of it is all too familiar! 3y
batsy @kathedron Nothing like Greek drama to inject a bit of youthful nostalgia 😁 3y
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