The Birds
Автор:
AristophanesЖанр:
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2026-08-11Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
23
Description
Two Athenians, lead by a crow and a jay sold to them as guides, have walked a long way away from their homeland because they’re fed up with its constant lawsuits. Finding the noble Epops, a talking hoopoe bird, they hatch a plan to join the birds in building a new city in the clouds where society will be better. The city, though, floating as it does in the sky, stops the smoke of the burnt sacrifices on the ground from reaching the gods in the heavens, and incurs their wrath.
The Birds, written in 414 BC, has most of Aristophanes’ common tropes: satire of the...
