num_pages: 322
description: Aristophanes wrote most of his comedic masterpieces during the Peloponnesian wars, parodying the tumultuous politics and society of that time with trademark innuendoes and bawdy stagings and dialogue. These plays contain, in turn, the sharpest political satire to be found in Aristophanes, a famous caricature of Socrates and the sophists, and the escapist fantasy of a city in the clouds.
language: English
title: Aristophanes 3: The Suits/Clouds/Birds
titlecomplete: Aristophanes 3: The Suits/Clouds/Birds
genres: Plays, Drama, Classics
ratings_count: 8
publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press