New translations of three plays by Aristophanes: Peace, Birds, and Wealth, with Introductions and Annotations

Aristophanes was a prolific and much acclaimed comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author.

Thomas Lee Pangle (born 1944) is an American political scientist. He currently holds the Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin and from 1979 to 2004 was University Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

Wayne Ambler is Associate Professor and Faculty member of the Herbst Program of Humanities for Engineers. His PhD is in political science, but he has taught in departments of history, classics, and literature.