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Peace, comedy by Aristophanes, performed at the Great Dionysia in 421 bce. The plot concerns the flight to heaven on a monstrous dung beetle by a war-weary farmer, Trygaeus (“Vintager”), who searches for the lost goddess Peace only to discover that the God of War has buried her in a pit. With the help of a chorus of farmers, Trygaeus rescues Peace, and the play ends with a joyful celebration of marriage and fertility. The play was written during the Peloponnesian War fought between Athens and Sparta. It was staged about seven months after both Cleon (the Athenian general) and ...(100 of 133 words)

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