Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly

Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly
Authors: Aristophanes
Published on: 2021-02-16
Page Count: 452 pages
Print Type: BOOK
Categories: Drama
Maturity Rating: NOT_MATURE
Language: en
Embeddable: Yes
PDF Available: Yes
EPUB Available: Yes
ISBN-13: 9781631496332
ISBN-10: 1631496336
... dildo away: The “poet” referred to here is the comic playwright Pherecrates, an older contemporary of Aristophanes. The joke turns on the fact that dildos were often covered in dog skin. 187 and tons a' money in Athena's temple: The ...

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