Aristophanes' Wasps

Aristophanes'' Wasps (422 B.C.) is an entertaining comedy that plunges us into the life of a family in classical Athens, while treating themes that readers of any time and place can appreciate. A father and son argue about politics, household servants try to please their master, a disruptive gang of the father''s friends decide to intervene, a dog becomes a lightning-rod for his antics in the kitc...