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Ko-ax, ko-ax, ko-ax! 
Now listen, you musical twerps, 
I don't give a damn for your burps!

'Ko-ax, ko-ax, ko-ax! 
Now listen, you musical twerps, 
I don't give a damn for your burps!' 
 
A biting comedy from the great Ancient Greek playwright. 
 
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Little is known about Aristophanes' life (c. 445BC-c.386BC), but there is a portrait of him in Plato's Symposium. His first comedy was produced when he was 20 and he wrote 40 plays in the course of his life.

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