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Title: Lysistrata
Author: Aristophanes
Illustrator: Norman Lindsay
Translator: Jack Lindsay
Release date: March 1, 2005 [eBook #7700]
Most recently updated: April 6, 2008
Language: English
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Translated from the Greek of
ARISTOPHANES
Illustrations by Norman Lindsay
FOREWORD
_Lysistrata_ is the greatest work by Aristophanes. This blank and rash statement is made that it may be rejected. But first let it be understood that I do not mean it is a better written work than the
_Birds_ or the _Frogs_, or that (to descend to the scale of values that will be naturally imputed to me) it has any more appeal to the collectors of "curious literature" than the _Ecclesiazusae_ or the
_Thesmophoriazusae_…