This volume highlights and offers different perspectives on the controversies provoked by this central text of Western philosophy.

The Acharnians or Acharnians (Ancient Greek: Ἀχαρνεῖς Akharne�s; Attic: Ἀχαρνῆς) is the third play – and the earliest of the eleven surviving plays – by the Athenian playwright Aristophanes. It was produced in 425 BCE on behalf of the young dramatist by an associate, Callistratus, and it won first place at the Lenaia festival. The…

Geoffrey Chaucer’s most significant literary accomplishment may well be Troilus and Criseyde, a single, profoundly philosophical narrative of a tragic love affair. Set in ancient Troy and telling the story of the rise and fall, in love and war, of prince Troilus, Troilus and Criseyde is an archetypal medieval romance. The widowed Criseyde is a…