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Peace

play by Aristophanes
Also known as: “Eirēnē”
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Peace, comedy by Aristophanes, performed at the Great Dionysia in 421 bce. The plot concerns the flight to heaven on a monstrous dung beetle by a war-weary farmer, Trygaeus (“Vintager”), who searches for the lost goddess Peace only to discover that the God of War has buried her in a pit. With the help of a chorus of farmers, Trygaeus rescues Peace, and the play ends with a joyful celebration of marriage and fertility. The...

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