ARISTOPHANES’ VIEWS ON WAR AND PEACE “Aristophanes hated war, among other reasons, for it’s stupidity, it’s corruption, it’s waste, and dearth.” (Dickinson 7) Aristophanes lived during a period of sustained violence. The Peloponnesian War between the Greek city/states Athens and Sparta lasted, with an interval of uneasy peace, from 431-404 B.C. By the end of the war, the Athenian Empire had been destroyed and the whole nature of the people of …showed first 75 words of 3155 total…

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