Author: Bejamin Bickley Rogers

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Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9781332190607

Excerpt from The Revolt of the Women: A Free Translation of the Lysistrata of Aristophanes It is daybreak at Athens; and Lysistrata, a young and beautiful woman, is standing alone, with marks of evident anxiety in her countenance and demeanour. The scene represents the sloping hill which rises from the Lower to the Upper City. In the background are the Propylaea, the splendid portals of the Athenian Acropolis. Lysistrata is on the look-out for persons who do not come, and after exhibiting various symptoms of impatience, she suddenly begins to speak with abrupt and indignant emphasis. Lysistrata. Now were they summoned to some shrine of Bacchus, Pan, Colias, Genetyllis, there had been No room to stir, so thick the crowd of timbrels. And now! - there's not one woman to be seen. Stay, here comes one, my neighbour Calonice. Good morning, friend. Calonice. Good morn, Lysistrata. Why, what's the matter? don't look gloomy, child. It don't become you to knit-knot your eyebrows. Lys. My heart is hot within me, Calonice, And sore I grieve for sake of womankind, Because the men account us all to be Sly, shifty rogues. Cal. And so, by Zeus, we are. Lys. Yet though I told them to be here betimes, To talk on weighty business, they don't come, About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."