Birds
Ornithes
Two Athenians persuade the birds to found a utopian city in the sky that starves out the Olympian gods, an escapist fantasy of total withdrawal from a corrupt human polis that doubles as Aristophanes's most purely imaginative comedy.
Ornithes
Two Athenians persuade the birds to found a utopian city in the sky that starves out the Olympian gods, an escapist fantasy of total withdrawal from a corrupt human polis that doubles as Aristophanes's most purely imaginative comedy.
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