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Peace
by Aristophanes from 421 BCE
About
Aristophanes' Peace (421 BCE) was produced at the moment negotiations were underway for the Peace of Nicias, which would temporarily end the Peloponnesian War — making it perhaps the most topically precise antiwar comedy in history. The farmer Trygaeus flies to heaven on a giant dung beetle to rescue the goddess Peace, who has been imprisoned by the gods tired of her. The play's allegory is unusually direct — the dung beetle is Athenian politics — and its mood is one of genuine celebration rather than the mordant irony of the more familiar antiwar plays. The ending, with its feast and wedding, has a warmth not always found in Aristophanes.
Translated from the original Greek.
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