Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata, Paperback - Aristophanes

Reducere. Whether his target is the war between the sexes or his fellow playwright Euripides, Aristophanes is the most important Greek comic dramatist--and o...

Reducere. 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...

A "zany [and] inventive" (Emily Wilson) translation that for the first time captures both the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiqu...

Reducere. DescriptionGreek playwright, Aristophanes, lived during the 5th and 4th century BC and is considered one of the principal authors of the Greek clas...

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): AristophanesIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 24...

Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fi...

Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' "The Frogs and Other Plays" offers a unique...

Reducere. A Classic Available Again Aristophanes was the greatest writer of ancient Athenian "old comedy, " known for its satires of contemporary life and fo...

Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate pe...

Reducere. In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war. @PussyWhip What’s something we can leverage against men? Wha...

The humor in LYSISTRATA is the focus of this latest adaptation. Playwright Edward Einhorn, known for his comic absurdist plays, translates the anci...

The first substantial commentary on Clouds since Dover's 1968 edition. Intended for intermediate Greek students at undergraduate and graduate level...

Reducere. This volume presents the Greek text of Aristophanes' Frogs, as edited by F. W. Hall and W. M. Geldart, with a parallel verse translation by Ian Joh...

This volume provides modern, uncensored translations of Aristophanes' Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps. These translations allow readers to explore t...

Treating ancient plays as living drama.

Reducere. This volume presents the Greek text of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, as edited by F. W. Hall and W. M. Geldart, with a parallel verse translation by Ia...

Reducere. In these three raucous comedies, mortals outwit and even replace Zeus and other Olympian deities of the Greek Pantheon. As Aristophanes provokes la...

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Reducere. Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encourage...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Luigi (Independent Scholar, UK) BarziniIllustration(s): 1 bw illusNumber of pages: 280Publication da...

The eleven plays by Aristophanes that have come down to us describe the period spanned by his forty-year career, beginning with the first productio...

Contends that our search for communal justice must start with self-examination. The realization that there are things that we cannot know about our...

Athenian comedy was written for performance in competitions at religious festivals. This book applies traditional philological techniques to five o...

Offers scholars of Greek literature new evidence of Aristophanes' polemical use of philosophy in poetic competition; ancient philosophers new evide...

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Publisher: Vor PressNumber of pages: 146Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 15Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farmecul lectur...

Narrated by a chair, In the Clouds is a light-hearted, humorous tale that tracks a hot-air balloon through the skies above Paris. Featuring the ori...

Reducere. Contained within this volume are some of the best of O'Neill's early one-act plays, which foreshadowed the longer plays that have given this dramat...

Collecting three comedies that show Aristophanes tackling the consequences of war and social upheaval in Athens with his characteristic wit, this t...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Sofia SimonIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 52Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 127 x 203 x 13Cov...