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Total Pages : 48 pages
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Download or read book The Stage of Aristophanes. [A Poem.] written by and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aristophanes
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Download or read book Aristophanes written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes of Athens (ca. 446- 386BC), 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. He wrote at least forty plays, of which eleven have survived complete. In this new Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson presents a freshly edited Greek text and a lively unexpurgated translation with full explanatory notes. The Introduction to the edition is in Volume I. Also in the first volume is Acharnians, in which a small landowner, tired of the Peloponnesian War, magically arranges a personal peace treaty; and Knights, perhaps the most biting satire of a political figure (Cleon) ever written. Three plays are in Volume II of the new edition. Socrates' "Thinkery" is at the center of Clouds, which spoofs untraditional techniques for educating young men. Wasps satirizes Athenian enthusiasm for jury service and the law courts as well as the city's susceptibility to demagogues. In Peace, a rollicking attack on war-makers, the farmer-hero makes his famous trip to heaven on a dung beetle to discuss the issues with Zeus. In Volume III, the enterprising protagonists of Birds create a utopian counter-Athens ruled by birds. Also in Volume III is Lysistrata, in which our first comic heroine organizes a conjugal strike of young wives until their husbands end the war between Athens and Sparta. Women again take center stage in Women at the Thesmophoria, this time to punish Euripides for portraying them as wicked. Frogs, in volume IV, features a contest between the traditional Aeschylus and the modern Euripides, yielding both sparkling comedy and insight on ancient literary taste. In Assemblywomen, Athenian women plot to save Athens from male misgovernance- with raucously comical results. Here too is Wealth, whose gentle humor and straightforward morality made it the most popular of Aristophanes' plays from classical times to the Renaissance.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631496336
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly written by Aristophanes and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquity’s greatest comedies, Aaron Poochigian’s Aristophanes: Four Plays brings these classic dramas to vivid life for a twenty-first century audience. 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 Aristophanes. His plays, immensely popular with the Athenian public, were frequently crude, even obscene. He ridiculed the great and the good of the city, showing up their hypocrisy and arrogance in ways that went far beyond the standards of good taste, securing the ire (and sometimes the retaliation) of his powerful targets. He showed his contemporaries, and he teaches us now, that when those in power act obscenely, patriotic obscenity is a fitting response. Aristophanes’s satirical masterpieces were also surpassingly virtuosic works of poetry. The metrical variety of his plays has always thrilled readers who can access the original Greek, but until now, English translations have failed to capture their lyrical genius. Aaron Poochigian, the first poet-classicist to tackle these plays in a generation, brings back to life four of Aristophanes’s most entertaining, wickedly crude, and frequently beautiful lyric comedies—the pinnacle of his comic art: · Clouds, a play famous for its caricature of antiquity’s greatest philosopher, Socrates; · Lysistrata, in which a woman convinces her female compatriots to withhold sex from their warmongering lovers unless they negotiate peace; · Birds, in which feathered creatures build a great city and become like gods; · and Women of the Assembly, Aristophones’s most revolutionary play, which inverts the norms of gender and power. Poochigian’s new rendering of these comic masterpieces finally gives contemporary readers a sense of the subversive pleasure Aristophones’s original audiences felt when they were first performed on the Athenian stage.
Author : John Williams White
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The 'stage' in Aristophanes written by John Williams White and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 0553213431
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Complete Plays of Aristophanes written by Aristophanes and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 1984-03-01 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poet who hated an age of decadence, armed conflict, and departure from tradition, Aristophanes' comic genius influenced the political and social order of his own fifth-century Athens. But as Moses Hadas writes in his introduction to this volume, 'His true claim upon our attention is as the most brilliant and artistic and thoughtful wit our world has known.' Includes The Acharnians, The Birds, The Clouds, Ecclesiazusae, The Frogs, The Knights, Lysistrata, Peace, Plutus, Thesmophoriazusae, and The Wasps.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781010885771
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (857 download)
Download or read book The Frogs Of Aristophanes: An English Version For The Use Of The Class Of 1904 Of Beloit College In The Seventeenth Annual Dramatic Rendition Of written by Aristophanes and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-23 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : C. W. Dearden
Publisher : London : Athlone Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Stage of Aristophanes written by C. W. Dearden and published by London : Athlone Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872203600
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes 1 written by Aristophanes and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents translations of three satirical plays along with information on staging, history, religious practice, myths, and issues raised by each play.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674995963
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (959 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes: Frogs. Assemblywomen. Wealth written by Aristophanes and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes has long been admired for his brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and political life of Athens at its height. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his plays--with a suitably romping translation facing a freshly edited Greek text--is now brought to completion with this fourth volume. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Lowell Edmunds
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780801867354
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (673 download)
Download or read book Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece written by Lowell Edmunds and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry in archaic and classical Greece was a practical art that arose from specific social or political circumstances. The interpretation of a poem or dramatic work must therefore be viewed in the context of its performance. In Poetry, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece, Lowell Edmunds and Robert W. Wallace bring together a distinguished group of contributors to reconstruct the performance context of a wide array of works, including epic, tragedy, lyric, elegy, and proverb. Analyzing the passage in the Odyssey in which a collective delirium comes over the suitors, Giulio Guidorizzi reveals how the poet describes a scene that lies outside the narrative themes and diction of epic. Antonio Aloni offers a reading of Simonides' elegy for the Greeks who fell at Plataea. Lowell Edmunds interprets the so-called seal of Theognis as lying on a borderline between the performed and the textual. Taking up proverbs, maxims, and apothegms, Joseph Russo examines "the performance of wisdom." Charles Segal focuses on the unusual role played by the chorus in Euripides' Bacchae. Reading the plot of Euripides' Ion, Thomas Cole concludes that the task of constructing the meaning of the play is to some extent delegated to the public. Robert Wallace describes the "performance" of the Athenian audience and provides a catalog of good and bad behavior: whistling, shouting, and throwing objects of every kind. Finally, Maria Grazia Bonanno stresses the importance of performance in lyric poetry.
Author : Aristophanes,
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 147250397X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes Plays: 2 written by Aristophanes, and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 us with a vivid picture of the ancient Athenians - their social mores, their beliefs and their exuberant sense of occasion. Wasps is a lawcourt satire, Clouds a lighthearted look at education, Birds a search for the perfect society, Festival Time a feminist trial of Euripides and Frogs a celebration of and debate around the theatre.Aristophanes was a unique writer for the comic stage as well as one of the most revealing about the society for which he wrote.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Pomona Press
ISBN 13 : 1406792365
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Poetics, Etc. written by Aristophanes and published by Pomona Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This may be described as an 'omnibus' volume of classical writings on literary style and taste - works which laid the foundations of criticism and have never, as Mr. Moxom says in his Introduction, really been surpassed or superseded. The volume begins with Aristotle's great Poetics (in Twining's translation), which is a treatise on poetry in general and the drama in particular. This is followed by Hobbes' digest of the less important Ars Rhetorica, together with some actual chapters from the work itself which have been specially translated by Mr Moxon. The treatise: On Style, which is generally ascribed to Demetrius of Phalerum (300 B.C.), follows logically after Aristotle: a work built upon his theses, but dealing less with theory than with the practical test of the principle of taste. This valuable work is here given in a new translation by Mr Moxon, as also the delightful Ars Poetica of Horace, which has supplied the world with many a favourite epigram and quotation.
Author : Daniel Holmes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498590772
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Philosophy, Poetry, and Power in Aristophanes's Birds written by Daniel Holmes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes was clearly anxious about the role of the sophists and the “new” education in Athens. After the perceived failure of Clouds in 423 and its subsequent, unperformed revision, Aristophanes, this book argues, returned in 414 with Birds, a continuation and deepening of his critique found in Clouds. Peisetaerus or “persuader of his comrades,” the protagonist of Birds, though an old man, is clearly a student of Socrates’ phrontisterion. Unlike Socrates, however, he is political and ambitious and he understands the whole of human nature, both rational and irrational. Peisetaerus employs the various deconstructive techniques of Socrates and his allies (which is summed up on the comic sage in the image of “father-beating”) to overturn not just human society, but, with the help of his new allies, the divine and musical birds, the cosmos. After his new gods and bird city, Cloudcuckooland, are actually established, however, the hero re-introduces the “old” ways - justice, moderation, and obedience to law – but now under his personal authority, and thereby becomes “the highest of the gods.” Thus, the author postulates, in 414 Aristophanes has come to acknowledge the potency of the apparent civic-minded turn (or element) of the sophists, while aware of the self-aggrandizing nature of their ambition. Peisetaerus, unlike Socrates, is successful: he is establishing a just polis and cosmos and, therefore, must be victorious. But the consequence or cost of this success is illustrated through the Bird Chorus. After the polis is founded, the birds never again sing of their musical reciprocity with the Muses, the source of melodies for men. The birds are now political and the policemen of human beings. The sophist-run cosmos has lost its music. The new Zeus is an ugly bird-mutant. The gods and all nomoi have lost their beauty, honor, and reverential nature. Birds, in its finale, hilariously, but boldlyilluminates the inherent tension between philosophy (reason) and poetry (divinely-inspired tradition).
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004324658
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes provides a substantive account of the reception of Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BC) from Antiquity to the present.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1625580932
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (255 download)
Download or read book The Thesmophoriazusae written by Aristophanes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thesmophoriazusae was performed in Athens in 411 BCE, most likely at the City Dionysia, and is among the most brilliant of Aristophanes' eleven surviving comedies. It is the story of the crucial moment in a quarrel between the tragic playwright Euripides and Athens' women, who accuse him of slandering them in his plays and are holding a meeting at one of their secret festivals to set a penalty for his crimes. Thesmophoriazusae is a brilliantly inventive comedy, full of wild slapstick humour and devastating literary parody, and is a basic source for questions of gender and sexuality in late 5th-century Athens and for the popular reception of Euripidean tragedy.
Author : Rosemary M. Harriott
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Aristophanes, Poet & Dramatist written by Rosemary M. Harriott and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486408868
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Birds written by Aristophanes and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disenchanted with the corruption of their native Athens, a pair of friends unite with the birds to found an idyllic city in the clouds. Widely acknowledged as Aristophanes' masterpiece, this sparkling fantasy resounds with comic vitality, combining witty dialog, interludes of exquisite lyricism, and clever stage effects for an irresistible extravaganza.
