Acharnians

Dicaeopolis, a farmer driven into the city by the war, sits in the empty assembly waiting for someone to propose peace. No one does. He gets a private treaty with Sparta for himself and his household. The chorus of Acharnian charcoal-burners, whose vines the Spartans have burned, come after him with stones, and he argues for his life with his head over a chopping block, in rags borrowed from Euripides. He wins them over, opens a market to all comers, and ends at a feast, while the general Lamachus comes back from the front on a stretcher.