Aristophanes, 2: Wasps, Lysistrata, Frogs, the Sexual Congress

　　Aristophanes' comedic masterpieces ridicule - creatively, with supreme wit, and invariably in high spirits - almost every aspect of Athenian political life and culture. In these four plays Aristophanes brings his unsurpassed parodic and poetic skill to bear on the Athenian court system, on a contest in the underworld between Aeschylus and Euripides for the throne of Tragedy, and on two scenarios in which the women of Athens seize the reins of government.