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Author : Aristophanes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Lysistrata written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lauren Taaffe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317700147
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes and Women (Routledge Revivals) written by Lauren Taaffe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes and Women, first published in 1993, investigates the workings of the great Athenian comedian’s ‘women plays’ in an attempt to discern why they were in fact probably quite funny to their original audiences. It is argued that modern students, scholars, and dramatists need to consider much more closely the conditions of the plays’ ancient productions when evaluating their ostensible themes. Three plays are focused upon: Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, and Ecclesiazusae. All seem to speak quite eloquently to contemporary concerns about women’s rights, the value of women’s work, and the relationships between women and war, literary representation and politics. On the one hand, Professor Taaffe tries to retrieve what an ancient Athenian audience may have l appreciated about these plays and what their central theses may have meant within that culture. On the other hand, Aristophanes is discussed from the perspective of a late twentieth-century, specifically female, reader.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674995871
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes: Birds. Lysistrata. Women at the Thesmophoria written by Aristophanes and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes (ca. 446-386 BCE), one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and political life of Athens at its height. In this third volume of a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson presents a freshly edited Greek text and a lively, unexpurgated translation of three plays with full explanatory notes. In Birds Aristophanes turns from the pointed political satire characteristic of earlier plays to a fantasy that soars literally into the air in search of a carefree world. Here the enterprising protagonists create a utopian counter-Athens, called Cloudcuckooland, ruled by birds. Lysistrata blends boisterous comedy and an earnest call for peace. Lysistrata, our first comic heroine, organizes a panhellenic conjugal strike of young wives until their husbands end the war between Athens and Sparta. Athenian women again take center stage in Women at the Thesmophoria, this time to punish Euripides for portraying them as wicked. Parody of Euripides' plots enlivens this witty confrontation of the sexes.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199265275
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Θεσμοφοριάζουσαι written by Aristophanes and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae is the story of a quarrel between the tragic playwright Euripides and Athens' women, who accuse him of slandering them in his plays. Austin and Olson offer a fresh text of the play; an extensive introduction; and a detailed commentary; most Greek cited in the introduction and commentary is translated, and much of the edition is accessible to non-specialists.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Lysistrata. The Thesmophoriazusae written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Lysistrata of Aristophanes written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph M. Rosen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004424466
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes and Politics written by Ralph M. Rosen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume explore the many aspects of the “political” in the plays of Greek comic dramatist Aristophanes (5th century BCE), posing a variety of questions and approaching them through diverse methodological lenses. They demonstrate that “politics” as reflected in Aristophanes’ plays remains a fertile, and even urgent, area of inquiry, as political developments in our own time distinctly color the ways in which we articulate questions about classical Athens. As this volume shows, the earlier scholarship on politics in (or “and”) Aristophanes, which tended to focus on determining Aristophanes’ “actual” political views, has by now given way to approaches far more sensitive to how comic literary texts work and more attentive to the complexities of Athenian political structures and social dynamics. All the studies in this volume grapple to varying degrees with such methodological tensions, and show, that the richer and more diverse our political readings of Aristophanes can become, the less stable and consistent, as befits a comic work, they appear to be.
Author : Judith Fletcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113950035X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama written by Judith Fletcher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oaths were ubiquitous rituals in ancient Athenian legal, commercial, civic and international spheres. Their importance is reflected by the fact that much of surviving Greek drama features a formal oath sworn before the audience. This is the first comprehensive study of that phenomenon. The book explores how the oath can mark or structure a dramatic plot, at times compelling characters like Euripides' Hippolytus to act contrary to their best interests. It demonstrates how dramatic oaths resonate with oath rituals familiar to the Athenian audiences. Aristophanes' Lysistrata and her accomplices, for example, swear an oath that blends protocols of international treaties with priestesses' vows of sexual abstinence. By employing the principles of speech act theory, this book examines how the performative power of the dramatic oath can mirror the status quo, but also disturb categories of gender, social status and civic identity in ways that redistribute and confound social authority.
Author : Carlo Ferdinando Russo
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415154049
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (151 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes written by Carlo Ferdinando Russo and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the classic book about Aristophanes. Russo examines the plays as libretti for actors and singers rather than as mere texts, and never loses sight of the stage.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The comedies of Aristophanes: The Lysistrata. The ecclesiazusae written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sue Blundell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674954731
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (547 download)
Download or read book Women in Ancient Greece written by Sue Blundell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Largely excluded from any public role, the women of ancient Greece nonetheless appear in various guises in the art and writing of the period, and in legal documents. These representations, in Sue Blundell's analysis, reveal a great deal about women's day-to-day experience as well as their legal and economic position - and how they were regarded by men.
Author : Thomas K. Hubbard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Mask of Comedy written by Thomas K. Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hubbard demonstrates that far from being a digression or a relic of long-forgotten rituals, the parabasis provides a critical link between the identities of the poet, chorus, and protagonist, and between the play and its audience.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141935774
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Frogs and Other Plays written by Aristophanes and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In The Frogs, written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a great debate to help him decide between the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus and the brilliant modernity of Euripides. The clash of generations and values is also the object of Aristophanes’ satire in The Wasps, in which an old-fashioned father and his loose-living son come to blows and end up in court. And in The Poet and the Women, Euripides, accused of misogyny, persuades a relative to infiltrate an all-women festival to find out whether revenge is being plotted against him.
Author : Mario Telò
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022630972X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes & the Cloak of Comedy written by Mario Telò and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427–386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the rowdy theatrical genre of Old Comedy. In this groundbreaking book, situated within the affective turn in the humanities, Mario Telò explores a vital yet understudied question: how did this view of Aristophanes arise, and why did his popularity eventually eclipse that of his rivals? Telò boldly traces Aristophanes’s rise, ironically, to the defeat of his play Clouds at the Great Dionysia of 423 BCE. Close readings of his revised Clouds and other works, such as Wasps, uncover references to the earlier Clouds, presented by Aristophanes as his failed attempt to heal the audience, who are reflected in the plays as a kind of dysfunctional father. In this proto-canonical narrative of failure, grounded in the distinctive feelings of different comic modes, Aristophanic comedy becomes cast as a prestigious object, a soft, protective cloak meant to shield viewers from the debilitating effects of competitors’ comedies and restore a sense of paternal responsibility and authority. Associations between afflicted fathers and healing sons, between audience and poet, are shown to be at the center of the discourse that has shaped Aristophanes’s canonical dominance ever since.
Author : M. S. Silk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199253821
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (538 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy written by M. S. Silk and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Greek in the text is translated; the versions offered seek to convey the distinctive character of the original."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Angus M. Bowie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521440127
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes written by Angus M. Bowie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book places the plays of Aristophanes in their contemporary context, asking what aspects of Greek, and especially Athenian, culture these comedies brought into play for their original audiences. It makes particular use of the structural analysis of Greek rituals and myths to demonstrate how their meanings and functions can be used to interpret the plays. This information is then used to suggest ways in which twentieth-century audiences may read the plays in terms of contemporary literary theories and concerns. This is the first book to apply the techniques of structural anthropology systematically to all the comedies. It does not impose a single interpretative structure on the plays but argues that each play operates with a range of different structures, and that groups of plays use similar structures in different ways. All Greek is translated.
Author : N. G. Wilson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191569399
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Aristophanea written by N. G. Wilson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed as a companion to the new OCT of Aristophanes. After a brief introduction giving a sketch of the textual transmission of the plays the editor discusses a large number of passages which present textual or other difficulties. Problems of this kind in many cases require notes that are too long and complex to be incorporated in the relatively limited space allocated to the apparatus criticus in the Oxford series.
