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The play is pretty silly. A farcical play advocating that the birds are higher than the gods and should rule all from their kingdom of the air (which is to be encircled "with a brick-builded wall, like Babylon's, solid and high").
I did however very much appreciate the work of the translator, who managed to maintain and good strong rhythm and rhyme -- Benjamin Bickley Rogers.
A few interesting tidbits. There are references to personalities involved in the Peloponnesian War.
He mentions Aesop's fabl ...more
I did however very much appreciate the work of the translator, who managed to maintain and good strong rhythm and rhyme -- Benjamin Bickley Rogers.
A few interesting tidbits. There are references to personalities involved in the Peloponnesian War.
He mentions Aesop's fabl ...more
It's good to know that all ages of man needed a special effects summer blockbuster.
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