Aristophanes’ Apology - Including a Transcript from Euripides is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1875. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such…

Drawing parallels between ancient theatre, the analytic setting and the workings of psychic life, this book examines the tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus through a psychoanalytic lens, with a…

The Frogs tells the story of the god Dionysus, despairing of the state of Athens’ tragedians, and allegedly recovering from the disastrous Battle of Arginusae. He travels to Hades to…

The play is notable for its absurd humour, its imaginative appeal for an end to the Peloponnesian War and for the author’s spirited response to condemnations of his previous play…

Unlike the author’s other early plays, it includes no direct mention of the Peloponnesian War and there are few references to Athenian politics, and yet it was staged not long…

It is now considered one of Aristophanes’ most brilliant parodies of Athenian society, with a particular focus on the subversive role of women in a male-dominated society, the vanity of…

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…

The Clouds can be considered not only the world’s first extant ‘comedy of ideas’ but also a brilliant and successful example of that genre. The play gained notoriety for its…