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Hysterical Laughter: Four Ancient Comedies about Women by

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4.0

While I can't speak to the accuracy of the translations, the treatment of Lysistrata was faithful to that play's bawdiness and humour. I hadn't previously read either Casina or Hecyra, but enjoyed them both - particularly the latter, which is an oddly tragi-comic tale with, at least to a modern reader, not a little moral ambiguity, in contrast to the mostly lighthearted and trope-centric standard of New Comedy.
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