Aristophanes PEACE: An adaptation for modern audiences in rhyming verse

An Athenian Farmer - fed up with the unending war against the Spartans - feeds so much of the shit the war has brought him to a dung-beetle that he is able to saddle it up and ride it - flying to the house of Zeus - there to plead the case for Peace...

This pocketbook edition of one of the ancient world's most neglected comedies presents for modern readers, singers, players, and audiences a rhyming verse adaptation designed to convey something of the emotional impact - rather than just the d...