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  • Aristophanes - The Ecclesiazusae: "The wise learn many things from their enemies" by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Aristophanes - The Ecclesiazusae: "The wise learn many things from their enemies"

    The reality is that little is known of Aristophanes actual life but eleven of his forty plays survive intact and upon those rest his deserved reputation as the Father of Comedy or, The Prince of Ancient Comedy. Accounts agree that he was born sometime...
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  • Aristophanes - The Frogs: "Under every stone lurks a politician" by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Aristophanes - The Frogs: "Under every stone lurks a politician"

    The reality is that little is known of Aristophanes actual life but eleven of his forty plays survive intact and upon those rest his deserved reputation as the Father of Comedy or, The Prince of Ancient Comedy. Accounts agree that he was born sometime...
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  • Aristophanes - The Thesmophoriazusae: "Let each man exercise the art he knows" by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Aristophanes - The Thesmophoriazusae: "Let each man exercise the art he knows"

    The reality is that little is known of Aristophanes actual life but eleven of his forty plays survive intact and upon those rest his deserved reputation as the Father of Comedy or, The Prince of Ancient Comedy. Accounts agree that he was born sometime...
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  • Aristophanes - The Wasps: "Evil events from evil causes spring" by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Aristophanes - The Wasps: "Evil events from evil causes spring"

    The reality is that little is known of Aristophanes actual life but eleven of his forty plays survive intact and upon those rest his deserved reputation as the Father of Comedy or, The Prince of Ancient Comedy. Accounts agree that he was born sometime...
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  • Aristophanes Plays: II by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Aristophanes Plays: II

    Reissue of Aristophanes' most famous plays in the Methuen Classical Greek Dramatists series Aristophanes is the oldest comedic writer in Western literature. Although only eleven of the some forty plays he wrote survive, his unique blend of slapstick, fantasy, bawy and political satire provide...
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  • Aristophanes' Birds, Frogs, And Clouds by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Aristophanes' Birds, Frogs, And Clouds

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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  • Aristophanes: Clouds by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Aristophanes: Clouds

    "The Clouds" is a comedy written by the celebrated playwright Aristophanes lampooning intellectual fashions in classical Athens. "The Clouds" was originally produced at the City Dionysia in 423 BC and it was not well received, coming last of the three plays competing at the...
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  • Aristophanes: Four Comedies by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Aristophanes: Four Comedies

    New English versions of Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, and Ladies' Day. "Thanks to Dudley Fitts...we can appreciate Aristophanes' vigor, his robust style, his scorching wit, his earthy humor, his devotion to honesty and his poetic imagination" (Brooks Atkinson, New York Times). Index.Author: AristophanesISBN-10:...
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  • Aristophanes: Four Major Plays (Lysistrata, the Acharnians, the Birds, the Clouds) by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Aristophanes: Four Major Plays (Lysistrata, the Acharnians, the Birds, the Clouds)

    Aristophanes (ca. 446 BCE-ca. 386 BCE) was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. This collection includes Lysistrata, The Archanians, The Birds, and The Clouds.Author: AristophanesISBN-10: 1434456528ISBN-13: 9781434456526Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2012Pages: 220Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d
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  • Aristophanes: Four Major Plays (Lysistrata, the Acharnians, the Birds, the Clouds) by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Aristophanes: Four Major Plays (Lysistrata, the Acharnians, the Birds, the Clouds)

    Aristophanes (ca. 446 BCE-ca. 386 BCE) was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. This collection includes Lysistrata, The Archanians, The Birds, and The Clouds.Author: AristophanesISBN-10: 143445651XISBN-13: 9781434456519Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2012Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
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  • Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly

    The citizens of ancient Athens enjoyed a freedom of speech as broad as our own. This freedom, parrhesia, the right to say what one pleased, how and when one pleased, and to whom, had no more fervent champion than the brilliant fifth-century comic playwright...
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  • Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly

    The citizens of ancient Athens enjoyed a freedom of speech as broad as our own. This freedom, parrhesia, the right to say what one pleased, how and when one pleased, and to whom, had no more fervent champion than the brilliant fifth-century comic playwright...
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  • Aristophanes: Frogs by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Aristophanes: Frogs

    Author: AristophanesISBN-10: 0862921155ISBN-13: 9780862921156Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1991Pages: 271Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.34h x 5.90w x 0.65d
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  • Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays: A New Verse Translation, with Introduction and Notes by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays: A New Verse Translation, with Introduction and Notes

    Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their brilliant combination...
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  • Aristophanes: Lysistrata With Commentary by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Aristophanes: Lysistrata With Commentary

    Lysistrata is one of the few surviving plays written by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges...
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  • Aristophanes: The Acharnians; The Knights; The Clouds (1898) by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Aristophanes: The Acharnians; The Knights; The Clouds (1898)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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  • Aristophanes: The Wasps (1868) by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Aristophanes: The Wasps (1868)

    Aristophanes: The Wasps is a play written by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, first performed in Athens in 422 BCE. The play follows the story of a father and son, Philocleon and Bdelycleon, who are both obsessed with serving on juries and finding fault...
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  • Aristophanis Comoediae: Ex Optimus Exemplaribus Emendatae: Cum Versione Latina, Volume 1 by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Aristophanis Comoediae: Ex Optimus Exemplaribus Emendatae: Cum Versione Latina, Volume 1

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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  • Aristophanis Ranae. the 'Frogs' of Aristophanes, a Revised Text With Notes by F.a. Paley by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Aristophanis Ranae. the 'Frogs' of Aristophanes, a Revised Text With Notes by F.a. Paley

    This revised version of Aristophanes' famous play, 'The Frogs, ' is a hilarious and incisive commentary on the state of Greek drama in the author's time. It tells the story of Dionysus, the god of drama, who descends to the underworld to bring back...
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  • Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Birds and Other Plays

    This new verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies offers one of the world's great comic dramatists in a form that is both historically faithful and theatrically vigorous. Aristophanes' plays were produced for the festival theater of classical Athens in the fifth century BC and encompass...
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  • Birds/Peace/Wealth: Aristophanes' Critique of the Gods by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Birds/Peace/Wealth: Aristophanes' Critique of the Gods

    In these three raucous comedies, mortals outwit and even replace Zeus and other Olympian deities of the Greek Pantheon. As Aristophanes provokes laughter at the foibles of gods and men, he arouses wonder at our human need for the divine."The three comic heroes in...
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  • Clouds by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Clouds

    Scene: The interior of a sleeping-apartment: Strepsiades, Phidippides, and two servants are in their beds; a small house is seen at a distance. Time: midnight. Strepsiades (sitting up in his bed). Ah me Ah me O King Jupiter, of what a terrible length the...
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  • Clouds by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Clouds

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...
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  • Clouds: The Comic Portrait of Socrates - Aristophanes' Satirical Play on Sophistry, Education, and Athenian Society by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Clouds: The Comic Portrait of Socrates - Aristophanes' Satirical Play on Sophistry, Education, and Athenian Society

    What if the most dangerous idea in society wasn't ignorance-but unchecked cleverness?In Clouds, Aristophanes satirizes the most celebrated thinker in Athens-Socrates-and exposes the social consequences of education unmoored from morality. At the center of the play is Strepsiades, a desperate father seeking a shortcut...
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  • Clouds: The Comic Portrait of Socrates - Aristophanes' Satirical Play on Sophistry, Education, and Athenian Society (Deluxe Hardbound Edition) by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Clouds: The Comic Portrait of Socrates - Aristophanes' Satirical Play on Sophistry, Education, and Athenian Society (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)

    What if the most dangerous idea in society wasn't ignorance-but unchecked cleverness?In Clouds, Aristophanes satirizes the most celebrated thinker in Athens-Socrates-and exposes the social consequences of education unmoored from morality. At the center of the play is Strepsiades, a desperate father seeking a shortcut...
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  • Comedies of Aristophanes, Viz, The Clouds, Plutus, The Frogs, The Birds; by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Comedies of Aristophanes, Viz, The Clouds, Plutus, The Frogs, The Birds;

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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  • Complete Plays of Aristophanes by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Complete Plays of Aristophanes

    Author: AristophanesISBN-10: 0553213431ISBN-13: 9780553213430Publisher: Bantam ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1984Pages: 592Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 6.80h x 4.20w x 1.30d
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  • Der Friede... by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Der Friede...

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...
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  • Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata

    The acknowledged master of Greek comedy, Aristophanes brilliantly combines serious political satire with bawdiness, pyrotechnical bombast with delicate lyrics. "Four Plays by Aristophanes" features his four most celebrated masterpieces: THE CLOUDS, THE BIRDS, LYSISTRATA, and THE FROGS. This edition features wonderful translations of "The...
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  • Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata

    Whether his target is the war between the sexes or his fellow playwright Euripides, Aristophanes is the most important Greek comic dramatist--and one of the greatest comic playwrights of all time. His writing--at once bawdy and delicate--brilliantly fuses serious political satire with pyrotechnical bombast,...
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  • Frogs by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Frogs

    Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on Classical Greek attitudes toward tragedy and literature in general. It merits a much more extensive commentary than it has so far received, and the establishment of the text itself has...
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  • Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Frogs and Other Plays

    The acknowledged master of Greek comedy, Aristophanes brilliantly combines serious political satire with bawdiness, pyrotechnical bombast with delicate lyrics. "Frogs and Other Plays" features his four most celebrated masterpieces: THE CLOUDS, THE BIRDS, LYSISTRATA, and THE FROGS. This edition features wonderful translations of "The...
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  • Knights by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Knights

    The Knights was the fourth play written by Aristophanes, who is considered the master of an ancient form of drama known as Old Comedy. The play is a satire on the social and political life of classical Athens during the Peloponnesian War and in...
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  • Lysistra, the Birds, Clouds by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Lysistra, the Birds, Clouds

    This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part...
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  • Lysistrata by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Lysistrata

    The humor in LYSISTRATA is the focus of this latest adaptation. Playwright Edward Einhorn, known for his comic absurdist plays, translates the ancient Greek humor into something equally amusing to a modern audience, without losing the flavor of the ancient text. Complete with essays,...
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  • Lysistrata by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Lysistrata

    LYSISTRATA: Ah if only they had been invited to a Bacchic revelling, or a feast of Pan or Aphrodite or Genetyllis, why the streets would have been impassable for the thronging tambourines Now there's never a woman here - ah except my neighbour Cleonice,...
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  • Lysistrata by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Lysistrata

    Lysistrata and Other Plays centers a disgruntled woman whose attempt to end a war takes the battle from an open field to the soldier's bedroom. Wives from both camps deny their husbands basic affection in an effort to quell the violence. Set during the...
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  • Lysistrata by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Lysistrata

    In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war. Author: AristophanesISBN-10: 0451531248ISBN-13: 9780451531247Publisher: Signet BookLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/07/2009Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 6.50h x 4.10w x 0.70d
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  • Lysistrata by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Lysistrata

    Aristophanes' great anti-war drama, with comedic overtones, glorifies the power of fertility in the face of destruction. Plays for Performance Series.Author: AristophanesISBN-10: 092958757XISBN-13: 9780929587578Publisher: Ivan R. Dee PublisherLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1991Pages: 72Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 9.32h x 4.46w x 0.21d
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  • Lysistrata by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Lysistrata

    Lysistrata is the greatest work by Aristophanes. This blank and rash statement is made that it may be rejected. But first let it be understood that I do not mean it is a better written work than the Birds or the Frogs, or that...
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  • Lysistrata by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Lysistrata

    Lysistrata, frustrated at the ongoing violence of the civil war, convinces the women of Athens to deny their husbands sex, until a treaty for peace has been signed. Aristophanes is astonishingly ahead of his time in this, probably his greatest and most enduring comedy.Author:...
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  • Lysistrata by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Lysistrata

    Aristophanes' play, Lysistrata, takes place toward the end of the Peloponnesian War and centers on the lives of the soldiers' wives. One woman, Lysistrata, under the impression that a man's libido is ultimately his driving force in life, comes up with an interesting peace...
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  • Lysistrata by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Lysistrata

    Lysistrata loosely translated to "she who disbands armies", is an anti-war Greek comedy, written in 411 BCE by Aristophanes. Led by the eponymous Lysistrata, the story's female characters barricade the public funds building and withhold sex from their husbands to end the Peloponnesian War...
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  • Lysistrata by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Lysistrata

    Lysistrata is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC. It is a comic account of a woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War between Greek city states by denying all the men of the land any...
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  • Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Lysistrata and Other Plays

    The acknowledged master of Greek comedy, Aristophanes brilliantly combines serious political satire with bawdiness, pyrotechnical bombast with delicate lyrics. "Lysistrata and Other Plays" features his four most celebrated masterpieces: THE CLOUDS, THE BIRDS, LYSISTRATA, and THE FROGS. This edition features wonderful translations of "The...
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  • Lysistrata and Other Plays: (Translated with Annotations by The Athenian Society) by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Lysistrata and Other Plays: (Translated with Annotations by The Athenian Society)

    Greek playwright, Aristophanes, lived during the 5th and 4th century BC and is considered one of the principal authors of the Greek classical period. Of the nearly thirty plays he wrote during his career, eleven are extant. Amongst the most famous of these is...
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  • Lysistrata and Other Works of Aristophanes by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Lysistrata and Other Works of Aristophanes

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Lysistrata, The Women's Festival, and Frogs by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Lysistrata, The Women's Festival, and Frogs

    Most readers nowadays encounter the plays of Aristophanes in the classroom, not the theater. Yet the "father of comedy" wrote his plays for the stage, not as literary texts. Many English translations of the plays were written decades ago, and in their outdated language...
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  • Lysistrata: (Translated with Annotations by The Athenian Society) by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Lysistrata: (Translated with Annotations by The Athenian Society)

    Greek playwright, Aristophanes, lived during the 5th and 4th century BC and is considered one of the principal authors of the Greek classical period. Of the nearly thirty plays he wrote during his career, eleven are extant. Amongst the most famous of these is...
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  • Lysistrata: A New Verse Translation by Aristophanes
    Aristophanes

    Lysistrata: A New Verse Translation

    Aristophanes, a native Athenian and the leading exponent of Greek comedy, was born c. 450 BCE. Today forty-three of his plays are known by title; eleven survive. The most famous of these is the whimsical fantasy Lysistrata. A perennial classroom and stage favorite as...
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