Aristophanes

The comedies of Aristophanes are known not only for their boldly imaginative plots but for the ways in which they incorporate and orchestrate a wide variety of literary genres and speech styles.

Aristophanes' Acharnians was performed at the Lenaia festival in Athens in 425 BCE. The play is the story of an old peasant farmer, Dikaiopolis, who has grown so disgusted with the Peloponnesian War and the patent self-serving of the city's leading politicians (abetted by the stupidity of his fellow-citizens) that he concludes a separate peace with the enemy.

Aristophanes, one of the greatest and most important poets of the golden age of classical Greek literature, has remained, in the English-speaking world at least, one of the most forbidding, because least well understood. This is a collection of critical and interpretative essays in English devoted entirely to this poet.

Birds is generally recognized as one of Aristophanes' masterpieces, for its imaginative plot (it is the source of the word "Cloudcuckooland"), and its charming and original lyrics. This abridgment of Nan Dunbar's widely acclaimed edition of

Music written by Manos Hadjidakis for the theatrical play "The Birds", a comedy of Aristophanes. The play was held by the Athens' "Theatre of Art" of Director Karolos Koyn and also by Maurice Bejart Ballet Theatre in Paris. The french performance was a triumph. The work is written for a mezzo-soprano, two baritones and chorus. It remained as one of the most important and versatile works of Manos Hadjidakis.

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