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Table of Contents

The Birds and Other PlaysAbout the Author7

Aristophanes in Antiquity9

Aristophanes, Comedian and Poet21

The Knights29

Peace91

The Birds147

The Assemblywoman215

Wealth265

Notes313

Select Bibliography336

About the Author

Little is known about Aristophanes' life (c. 445BC-c.386BC), but there is a portrait of him in Plato's Symposium. His first comedy was produced when he was 20 and he wrote 40 plays in the course of his life. David Barrett has translated a number of ancient Greek texts for Penguin Classics.