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Author : Aristophanes
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Total Pages : 21 pages
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Download or read book The Stage of Aristophanes. [A Poem.]. written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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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 : 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 : John Williams White
Publisher :
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 : 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 : 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 : Zachary P. Biles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139494724
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition written by Zachary P. Biles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athenian comic drama was written for performance at festivals honouring the god Dionysos. Through dramatic action and open discourse, poets sought to engage their rivals and impress the audience, all in an effort to obtain victory in the competitions. This book uses that competitive performance context as an interpretive framework within which to understand the thematic interests shaping the plots and poetic quality of Aristophanes' plays in particular, and of Old Comedy in general. Studying five individual plays from the Aristophanic corpus as well as fragments of other comic poets, it reveals the competitive poetics distinctive to each. It also traces thematic connections with other poetic traditions, especially epic, lyric, and tragedy, and thereby seeks to place competitive poetics within broader trends in Greek literature.
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 : 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 : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472503961
Total Pages : 341 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 2013-12-10 with total page 341 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 : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198900228
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (989 download)
Download or read book Wasps and Other Plays written by Aristophanes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third and final volume of a new verse translation of the complete plays of Aristophanes by Stephen Halliwell. The translations combine accuracy with an attempt to capture the rich dramatic and literary qualities of Aristophanic comedy.
Author : Carlo Ferdinando Russo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134735383
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes written by Carlo Ferdinando Russo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlo Ferdinando Russo's book has been a seminal work on Aristophanes since its publication in Italy in 1962. In his detailed analysis, Russo considers the plays as libretti for actors and singers rather than as mere texts, and never loses sight of the stage. This is the classic book about Aristophanes. Now finally available in English and much-updated, it is essential reading for any student of Athenian comedy.
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).
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 : 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 : Rosemary M. Harriott
Publisher :
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 :
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:
