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BIOGRAPHY

    He was born in Athens in 452 BC. He had been writing since he was an adolescent but he was not allowed to participate in the contests because of his age. Therefore he participated with the alias "Detalis" and he won the first prize with "The Acharnians". His comedies were characterised by a great sense of humour.

    He died in Aegina in 385 BC.

Peace - The plot

The Athenian viticulturist Trygaios, frustrated by the disasters of war, decides to go to the sky and he asks from Zeus that he gives back Peace to the world. Because he intends to fly up to Olympus with a coprophagous beetle, he assigns to his slaves to feed it until it grows. Reaching, therefore, in the sky with the beetle, he learns from Hermes that Jupiter and the other gods changed residence, because they gor bored seeing  humans be kiling each other, and that War jailed Peace in a cave, in order to keep it chained forever. Trygaios also confronted War,  who with his slave, Tarachos, was prepared to bat in a wooden mortar the all Greek cities that are found in belligerent situation, in order to make them disappear from the face of the earth.

The pestle, however, has been lost, and thus War leaves at the present moment in order to finds another. Trygaios then, calls in help all Greeks in order to release Peace. Hermes  tries to prevent them, because Jupiter had commanded that anyone trying to release Preace  be punished with the death penalty. Trygaios  however, bribing Hermes and with the help of all Greeks, released  Peace, and all together returned to earth. Afterwards the chorus ask from the spectators to honour the writer with the hoop of victory.

The work finishes with the marriage of Trygaios with the godess Opora  and a song of the chorus, that praises  the benefits of peaceful life.

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