SUNDAY  18/09/2011  8:00 P.M.  ROYAL  MANOR  HOUSE ( KOUKLIA  MUSEUM )

Peace: (Ειρήνη) is an Athenian old  comedy  written and produced by the Greek playwright  Aristophanes. It won second prize at the city dionysia where it was staged just a few days before the ratification of the  Peace of  Nicias (421 BC), which promised to end the ten year old  Peloponnesian  War.

Short summary: Trygaeus, a middle-aged Athenian, miraculously brings about a peaceful end to the  Peloponnesian  War, thereby earning the gratitude of farmers while bankrupting various tradesmen who had profited from the hostilities. He celebrates his triumph by marrying Harvest, a companion of Festival and Peace, all of whom he has liberated from a celestial prison.