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Acharnians, Knights, and Peace: Volume 45
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 Many English translations of the plays were written decades ago, and in their outdated language...- $24.95
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Aristophanes
Aristophanes is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1868. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the...- $28.50
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Aristophanes
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Aristophanes - Lysistrata: "Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole"
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Aristophanes - Peace: "As I told you, this is his form of madness"
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Aristophanes - Plutus: "What an unhppy fate, to be the slave of a fool"
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Aristophanes - The Acharnians: "A man's homeland is wherever he prospers"
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Aristophanes - The Birds: "You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say"
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Aristophanes - The Clouds: "High thoughts must have high language"
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Aristophanes - The Ecclesiazusae: "The wise learn many things from their enemies"
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Aristophanes - The Frogs: "Under every stone lurks a politician"
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Aristophanes - The Knights: "A man may learn wisdom even from a foe"
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Aristophanes - The Thesmophoriazusae: "Let each man exercise the art he knows"
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Aristophanes - The Wasps: "Evil events from evil causes spring"
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Aristophanes' Birds, Frogs, And Clouds
This collection brings together three of Aristophanes' most celebrated plays: "Birds," "Frogs," and "Clouds." A master of Old Comedy, Aristophanes' works are known for their sharp wit, political satire, and fantastical scenarios. In "Birds," two Athenians set out to create a city in the...- $33.95
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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...- $7.99
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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:...- $30.00
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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- $19.99
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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- $12.99
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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...- $18.95
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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- $40.95
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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...- $13.95
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Aristophanes: Indexes to the plays
This volume completes the twelve-volume series The Comedies of Aristophanes, begun in 1980, and is comprised of comprehensive indexes to the preceding eleven volumes. The book is divided into three parts: I Texts and Passages, II Persons, and III General.Author: AristophanesISBN-10: 0856687502ISBN-13: 9780856687501Publisher: Liverpool...- $160.00
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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...- $6.99
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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...- $40.95
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Aristophanes: The Birds
The acknowledged master of Greek comedy, Aristophanes brilliantly combines serious political satire with bawdiness, pyrotechnical bombast with delicate lyrics. "The Birds," a portrayal of a flawed utopia called Cloudcuckooland, is an enchanting escape into the world of free-flying fantasy that explores the eternal dilemmas...- $7.99
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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...- $40.95
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Aristophanes: The Wasps (1868)
Aristophanes: The Wasps is a play written by Aristophanes in ancient Greece. The play is a comedy that satirizes the legal system of Athens and the role of the jury in the courts. The main character, Philocleon, is a juror who is addicted to...- $25.95
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Aristophanes: The Wasps (1868)
Aristophanes: The Wasps is a play written by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes in the 5th century BCE. The play follows the story of a man named Philocleon, who is addicted to serving on juries and finds great pleasure in punishing those who have...- $40.95
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Aristophanis Aves
Aristophanis Aves, or "The Birds," is a classic comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. This edition offers readers access to one of the most imaginative and enduring works of classical literature. The play follows two Athenians, Pisthetaerus and Euelpides, who are fed up...- $23.95
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Aristophanis Comoediae
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Aristophanis Comoediae Undecim, Graece Et Latine Tomi 1 (1760)
Liber Aristophanis Comoediae Undecim, Graece Et Latine Tomi 1 (1760) continet undecim comoedias Aristophanis, qui fuit poeta comicus Graecus in saeculo quinto ante Christum. In hoc libro, comoediae Graece et Latine scriptae sunt, ut legentes possint intellegere fabulas et argumenta. Aristophanes fabulas scripsit ad...- $46.95
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Aristophanis Quatuor Fabulae, Equites, Nubes, Vespae, Ranae, Recens. Et Copiosa Annotatione ...
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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...- $18.95
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Aristophanous Nephelai
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Birds and Frogs;
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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...- $11.95
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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...- $18.95
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Clouds
Clouds is a comedic play written by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. The play satirizes the intellectual and philosophical trends of Athens in the late 5th century BC, particularly the teachings of Socrates and the Sophists. The central character of the play is Strepsiades,...- $43.95
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Clouds
The Clouds by Aristophanes The play begins with Strepsiades suddenly sitting up in bed while his son, Pheidippides, remains blissfully asleep in the bed next to him. Strepsiades complains to the audience that he is too worried about household debts to get any sleep...- $9.95
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Clouds, Edited on the Basis of Koch's Edition by M. W. Humphreys
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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...- $14.95
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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...- $24.95
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Comedies of Aristophanes, Viz, The Clouds, Plutus, The Frogs, The Birds;
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Comoediae: Ad Optimorum Librorum Fidem Accurate Editae, Volume 3
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...- $30.75
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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- $6.95
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Four Comedies
Contains Lysistrata, The Congresswomen, The Acharnians, and The FrogsAuthor: AristophanesISBN-10: 0472061526ISBN-13: 9780472061525Publisher: University of Michigan PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/15/1969Pages: 432Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.07w x 0.96d- $15.95
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Four Comedies; 0
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Four Comedies; 0
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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,...- $24.00
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