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Author : Aristophanes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Wasps written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth Sprague Rothwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190907401
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes' Wasps written by Kenneth Sprague Rothwell and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes' Wasps (422 B.C.) is an entertaining comedy that plunges us into the life of a family in classical Athens, while treating themes that readers of any time and place can appreciate. A father and son argue about politics, household servants try to please their master, a disruptive gang of the father's friends decide to intervene, a dog becomes a lightning-rod for his antics in the kitchen, attempts are made at reform and reconciliation, and it all ends with a drinking party that goes disastrously wrong. The father, Philocleon, and his friends, the chorus of wasp-like old men for whom the play is named, are some of the great creations of comic drama. The characters of the Wasps make constant references to the everyday world they are living in: its political demagogues, court system, religious rituals, social niceties, class distinctions, diseases, clothes, food, toilets, paychecks, geography, weather, household items, literary and mythological allusions, military experiences, and much more. These references give the play its immediacy, but their unfamiliarity to modern students can pose a challenge. This edition provides a full introduction devoted to the political, social, and literary background of the play, as well as notes to the text explaining historical details.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Aris and Phillips Classical Te
ISBN 13 : 0856682136
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)
Download or read book Wasps written by Aristophanes and published by Aris and Phillips Classical Te. This book was released on 1983 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wasps was first produced at the Lenaea festival of 422 BC. The play is at once a political satire and also, like Clouds and the lost Banqueters, a comedy on the theme of the conflict of generations. The play follows the efforts of a mischievous and mercurial old man to escape the control of a stern and heavy son.
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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Wasps of Aristophanes written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thorsten Fögen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110545624
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity written by Thorsten Fögen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeen contributions to this volume, written by leading experts, show that animals and humans in Graeco-Roman antiquity are interconnected on a variety of different levels and that their encounters and interactions often result from their belonging to the same structures, ‘networks’ and communities or at least from finding themselves together in a certain setting, context or environment – wittingly or unwittingly. Papers explore the concrete categories of interaction between animals and humans that can be identified, in what contexts they occur, and what types of evidence can be productively used to examine the concept of interactions. Articles in this volume take into account literary, visual, and other types of evidence. A comprehensive research bibliography is also provided.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140441529
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (415 download)
Download or read book The Wasps written by Aristophanes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1964 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Wasps' an old-fashioned father and his loose-living son come to blows--and end up in court; elsewhere Aristophanes milks the clash of generations for all it is worth by sending up the purveyors of new ideas like Socrates and Euripides (the most controversial of the great tragedians). In 'The Poet and the Women' Euripides, accused of misogyny, gets a relative in drag to infiltrate an all-woman festival and find out what revenge is being plotted, with predictable bawdy results. In 'The Frogs, ' written in the darkest days of the Peloponnesian War, the god Dionysus descends to the Underworld to find a poet to bring back: does Athens in her hour of danger need the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus or the brilliant modern cleverness of Euripides? As the great debate proceeds, Aristophanes combines parody with slapstick and political discussion with pantomime high spirit, to produce a hilarious and unique masterpiece.
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 : Aristophanes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Wasps of Aristophanes, with notes by T. Mitchell written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781480137653
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (376 download)
Download or read book The Wasps (Large Print) written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xanthias I am teaching myself how to rest; I have been awake and on watch the whole night.Sosias So you want to earn trouble for your ribs, eh? Don't you know what sort of animal we are guarding here?Xanthias Aye indeed! but I want to put my cares to sleep for a while.[He falls asleep again.]
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1625580967
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (255 download)
Download or read book The Wasps written by Aristophanes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wasps satirizes Athenian enthusiasm for jury service and the law courts as well as the city's susceptibility to demagogues.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781419287367
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (873 download)
Download or read book The Wasps written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 2004-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: XANTHIAS (turning to the audience): Come, I must explain the matter to the spectators. But first a few words of preamble: expect nothing very high-flown from us, nor any jests stolen from Megara; we have no slaves, who throw baskets of nuts to the spectators, nor any Heracles to be robbed of his dinner, nor does Euripides get loaded with contumely.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812216844
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (168 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes, 2 written by Aristophanes and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1999-05-06 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume in the acclaimed Penn Greek Drama Series containing Wasps, Lysistrata, Frogs, and The Sexual Congress.
Author : Michael Vickers
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292746571
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Pericles on Stage written by Michael Vickers and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the eighteenth century, classical scholars have generally agreed that the Greek playwright Aristophanes did not as a matter of course write "political" plays. Yet, according to an anonymous Life of Aristophanes, when Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse wanted to know about the government of Athens, Plato sent him a copy of Aristophanes' Clouds. In this boldly revisionist work, Michael Vickers convincingly argues that in his earlier plays, Aristophanes in fact commented on the day-to-day political concerns of Athenians. Vickers reads the first six of Aristophanes' eleven extant plays in a way that reveals the principal characters to be based in large part on Pericles and his ward Alcibiades. According to Vickers, the plays of Aristophanes—far from being nonpolitical—actually allow us to gauge the reaction of the Athenian public to the events that followed Pericles' death in 429 B.C., to the struggle for the political succession, and to the problems presented by Alcibiades' emergence as one of the most powerful figures in the state. This view of Aristophanes reaffirms the central role of allegory in his work and challenges all students of ancient Greece to rethink long-held assumptions about this important playwright.
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 : Aristophanes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Knights written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Aristophanous Sphēkes written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
