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This book is the first release of "The Complete Works of Aristophanes" re-translated and newly launched by Professor Liu Xiaofeng. The complete collection includes 11 existing comedies by Aristophanes and is planned to be released within two to three years. Each book is published in a single line and is not large in length. The format is designed to be small in 32 pages, suitable for carrying around, turning classics from "big bricks" into "little cutes", and entering everyone's pockets from libraries, so that everyone can rub shoulders with classics and nourish their mind. Mammon is actually Aristophanes' last work. The story tells the story of an ordinary farmer who, for personal purposes, went to the sun god Apollo to ask what kind of lifestyle his son should choose, because he discovered that living a righteous life would make him poorer and poorer, while an unjust life would make him richer and richer. The oracle indicated that he should closely follow the first person he met outside the temple and take him home. The farmer followed the literal meaning of the oracle and took the first blind beggar he met back home, only to find that the beggar was the God of Wealth... At the end of the story, the God of Wealth who restored his eyesight did not make all the righteous people rich, but made all the poor rich. However, some poor people also lived a lazy life of doing nothing after they became rich, and social order and ethics have not been well improved. In short, although the farmer succeeds at the end of the script, it actually confirms the God of Wealth's point of view: it is difficult to have both wealth and justice; it also proves the warning of the God of Poverty in the story: poverty (or lack) is the driving force for creating social wealth.