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Acharnians (Billson Translation) Audiobook

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Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/300818 Title: Acharnians (Billson Translation) Author: Expatriate Narrator: Expatriate Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr 36 mins Language: English Release date: 2017-01-01 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics Publisher's Summary: Loaded with cryptic, nearly indecipherable inside jokes and double entendres, this early comedy of Aristophanes has a simple, anti-war premise that resounds down the centuries. On flimsy pretexts, greedy politicians have embroiled the nation of Athens in war after war after war. Dicopolis is Everyman, an ordinary, plain-speaking citizen fed up with the bumbling, belligerence, and insincerity of the professional leaders. He decides on a whim to make a separate peace with Sparta all by himself, returning with a treaty good for thirty years. Envious of the good deal he has made and of the profit he sees from it, other Athenians try to buy packets of his peace from him, with no su