aristophanes

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...

Author: AristophanesISBN-10: 0140449698ISBN-13: 9780140449693Publisher: Penguin ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/06/2007Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 7.74h x 5.33w x 0.69d

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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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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,...

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...

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

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

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

A translation by Brandeis National Committee in 1945 of one of the greatest poems of classic literature. With illustrations by Norman Lindsay and a foreword by Jack Lindsay.Author: AristophanesISBN-10: 1479434434ISBN-13: 9781479434435Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/23/2024Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.27d

Author: AristophanesISBN-10: 1965684785ISBN-13: 9781965684788Publisher: Warbler ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2025Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.27d

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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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...

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...

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...

A Classic Available Again Aristophanes was the greatest writer of ancient Athenian "old comedy," known for its satires of contemporary life and for its broad, often obscene humor. Lysistrata was first produced in 411 BC, when the Peloponnesian War had been devastating Greece for...

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...

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...

The play is notable for its joyous anticipation of peace and for its celebration of a return to an idyllic life in the countryside. However, it also sounds a note of caution, there is bitterness in the memory of lost opportunities and the ending...

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Scenes from Aristophanes: The Knights (1876) is a play by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It is a satirical comedy that was first performed in Athens in 424 BCE. The play is set during the Peloponnesian War and follows the story of two slaves...

The Acharnians Aristophanes 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...

The Acharnians is the third play - and the earliest of the eleven surviving plays - by the Athenian playwright Aristophanes. It was produced in 425 BCE on behalf of the young dramatist by an associate, Callistratus. The play is notable for its absurd...

The Acharnians is a comedic play written by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. The play is set during the Peloponnesian War, a conflict between Athens and Sparta that lasted from 431 to 404 BCE. The protagonist of the play is a farmer named Dicaeopolis,...

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A bold and satirical comedy in which private action challenges public policy during a time of war. In The Acharnians, Aristophanes presents the story of Dicaeopolis, an Athenian citizen who, frustrated by the prolonged conflict of the Peloponnesian War, negotiates a personal peace in...

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"The Birds" is a Greek comedy written by Aristophanes in 414 BC. The play tells the story of two Athenians, Euelpides and Peisetaerus, who are disillusioned with life in Athens and decide to seek a new city in the sky, built by the birds....

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The Birds is a comedy by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed in 414 BC at the City Dionysia where it won second prize. It has been acclaimed by modern critics as a perfectly realized fantasy remarkable for its mimicry of birds...

Aristophanes, often referred to as "The Father of Comedy", is an ancient Greek poet and playwright who is credited with helping to create the art of satire and irony. Of the over forty plays Aristophanes wrote during his lifetime only eleven survive to this...

Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is a timeless set of comedies, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to wonderful effect. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Greek by David Barrett and Alan...

The Birds of Aristophanes, presented here in a meticulously revised Greek text alongside a corresponding English translation, offers a rich experience for scholars and enthusiasts of classical literature. Acted at Athens during the Great Dionysia in 414 B.C., this comedic masterpiece showcases Aristophanes' wit...

The Birds of Aristophanes is a play written by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, which was performed by members of the University at the Theater Royal in Cambridge in November of 1883. This book contains the Greek text of the play, as well as...

The Birds of Aristophanes - With Notes, and a Metrical Table is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine,...

A sharply inventive comic play in which the absurd becomes a vehicle for political satire and philosophical reflection. In The Birds, Aristophanes imagines two Athenians abandoning the human world to found a new city among the birds, constructing an aerial utopia that soon entangles...

Author: AristophanesISBN-10: 3368457101ISBN-13: 9783368457105Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/08/2022Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.28d

Author: AristophanesISBN-10: 336845711XISBN-13: 9783368457112Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/08/2022Pages: 116Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

The Clouds is a comedy play written by the celebrated playwright Aristophanes lampooning intellectual fashions in classical Athens. It 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...

Reproduction of the original: The Clouds by AristophanesAuthor: AristophanesISBN-10: 373406385XISBN-13: 9783734063855Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2019Pages: 58Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

"The Clouds" is a timeless Greek comedy written by Aristophanes, renowned for its sharp wit, satire, and philosophical inquiry. Set in ancient Athens, this comedic masterpiece follows the misadventures of Strepsiades, a debt-ridden farmer desperate to evade his financial troubles. Fueled by the promise...

The Clouds is a comedy written by the celebrated playwright Aristophanes lampooning intellectual fashions in classical Athens. It 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 festival...

The Clouds by Aristophanes offers a sharp and witty critique of the intellectual movements that swept through late fifth-century Athens. Through biting satire, Aristophanes targets the sophists, a group of philosophers who were often seen as manipulative and morally dubious, with Socrates as the...

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