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Lysistrata / The Acharnians / The Clouds

9 best books like Lysistrata / The Acharnians / The Clouds (Aristophanes): H.P. Lovecraft: A Biography, The Agricola and The Germania, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Prometheus Bound and Other Plays, The Bacchae, Vita Nuova, Euripides II: The Cyclops / Heracles / Iphigenia in Tauris / Helen, Sophocles II: Ajax/Women of Trachis/Electra/Philoctetes (Complete Greek Tragedies 4), The Misanthrope and Other Plays

H.P. Lovecraft: A Biography
AuthorL. Sprague de Camp
ISBN1566199948
This biography relates a paradoxical, ironic literary life--that of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, who never had a book of his stories published in his lifetime, but who became a best-selling author after his death; who died in poverty and obscurity, convinced of his failure, but who is today hailed as...
The Agricola and The Germania
AuthorTacitus
ISBN0140442413
The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law - and the first detailed account of Britain that has come down to us. It offers fascinating descriptions of the geography, climate and peoples of the country,...
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
AuthorAeschylus
ISBN0140443339
Alternate cover edition can be found here, here, here, here

In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos.

Moving from darkness to light, from...
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
AuthorAeschylus
ISBN0140441123
This is a review of Prometheus Bound. Reviews of other plays in the same book are found elsewhere (see below)



Peter Paul Rubens


Prometheus, discoursing on his gifts to mankind:

... At first
Mindless, I gave them mind and reason. - What I say
Is not censure...
The Bacchae
AuthorEuripides
ISBN1854594117
Dionysus is my favourite ancient Greek god. Why? Because he is the coolest, simple as.

“He is life's liberating force.
He is release of limbs and communion through dance.
He is laughter, and music in flutes.
He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep!"


- The Young...
Vita Nuova
AuthorDante Alighieri
ISBN0192839357
Vita Nuova (1292-94) is regarded as one of Dante's most profound creations. The thirty-one poems in the first of his major writings are linked by a lyrical prose narrative celebrating and debating the subject of love. Composed upon Dante's meeting with Beatrice and the "Lord of Love," it is a love story...
Euripides II: The Cyclops / Heracles / Iphigenia in Tauris / Helen
AuthorEuripides
ISBN0226307816
This volume contains the following tragedies by Euripides:

1. The Cyclops, translated and with an introduction by William Arrowsmith
2. Heracles, translated and with an introduction by William Arrowsmith
3. Iphigenia in Tauris, translated by Witter Bynner and with an introduction...
Sophocles II: Ajax/Women of Trachis/Electra/Philoctetes (Complete Greek Tragedies 4)
AuthorSophocles
ISBN0226307867
"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."Robert Brustein, The New Republic

"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation

"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought...
The Misanthrope and Other Plays
AuthorMolière
In the seventeenth century, Molière raised comedy to the pitch of great art and, three centuries later, his plays are still a source of delight. He created a new synthesis from the major comic traditions at his disposal. This collection demonstrates the range of Molière's comic vision, his ability...
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