Ten years into the war between Athens and Sparta, the farmer Trygaeus fattens up an enormous dung-beetle and rides it to heaven to complain to Zeus. He finds the gods gone and War pounding the Greek cities in a mortar, so he rallies the farmers of Greece to haul the buried goddess Peace out of her pit.
Bawdy, joyful comedy staged just before the Peace of Nicias, with a plea against war that still lands. Download the free EPUB.