Peace

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Peace is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes that satirically celebrates the end of war and the restoration of harmony to Athens.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek comedy
play
satirical work
alsoKnownAs Eirene
author Aristophanes
character Greek farmers
Trygaeus
War (personified)
Hermes
surface form: the god Hermes

Eirene (Greek goddess of peace)
surface form: the personified goddess Peace
chorusType Greek farmers or vine-dressers
countryOfOrigin Classical Athens
dramaticStructure prologue, parodos, episodes, agon, parabasis, exodos
firstPerformanceDate 421 BC
firstPerformanceFestival City Dionysia
firstPerformanceLocation Athens
form verse drama
genre Old Comedy
hasChorus yes
hasMotif celebratory feast after peace
journey to the gods
personification of abstract concepts
hasSubject war and peace in classical Greece
historicalContext written during the Peloponnesian War
influenced later European comic drama about war and peace
literaryPeriod Classical Greek literature
literaryTradition Attic Old Comedy
mainCharacter Trygaeus
message advocacy of negotiated peace for Athens and Greece
meter various Greek lyric and iambic meters
originalLanguage Ancient Greek
partOf Aristophanes' play Clouds
surface form: Aristophanes' surviving comedies
plotSummary A farmer named Trygaeus flies to heaven to plead with the gods to end the Peloponnesian War and rescue the goddess Peace from imprisonment.
satirizes Athenian war policy
Peloponnesian War
contemporary politicians
setting Athens
theme Athenian politics
critique of war
end of war
peace
restoration of civic harmony
titleInGreek Εἰρήνη
typeOfHumor fantastical comedy
political satire

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Aristophanes notableWork Peace
Organix hasTrack Peace
Athenian politician and general Cleon portrayedIn Peace
subject surface form: Cleon