as is the case with Amphitheus, however they did not wish to do anything in order to obtain it (Murray 113). Dicaeopolis, fed up with society and the government, decides to establish peace on his own and not listen to the assembly. His craving for this peace leads to his monumental decision. He sends Amphitheus to Sparta !
             with eight drachmas and instructions to make peace for himself and his family. He figured "that if the government is not working for him, that he should be able to obtain what he wants on his own without the inner workings of the Greek government coming after him" (Fitts 94). Amphitheus returns with three truces in wineskins for Dicaeopolis to choose from. This identification of wine and peace connects Dionysus, the god of the festival, directly with the action that runs throughout the rest of the play (Spatz 33). Dicaeopolis selects the thirty-year vintage, and all the delights associated with the wine such as freedom, fertility, power and pleasure, become the delights of peace (Murray 114). What Aristophanes is sa
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