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Lysistrata
Av Aristophanes
Häftad, 2021
126 kr
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About Aaron Poochigian’s translation“Aristophanes was a funny, often obscene social commentator, and he was also a brilliantly fluent, wide-ranging poet, whose lyric rhythms were recited and sung to music, with dancing. It’s very rare for modern translators to convey his poetic virtuosity or make …
Aristophanes: Four Plays
Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly
Av Aristophanes
Häftad, 2022
209 kr
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Aristophanes’s satirical masterpieces, immensely popular with the Athenian public, were frequently crude, even obscene. His plays revealed to his contemporaries, and now teach us today, that when those in power act obscenely, patriotic obscenity is a fitting response. Until now English translations …
Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays
A new verse translation, with introduction and notes
Av Aristophanes, Stephen Halliwell
Häftad, 2016
154 kr
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Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their brilliant combination of …
Frogs and Other Plays
Häftad, 2007
179 kr
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Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' The Frogs and Other Plays offers a unique insight into one of the most turbulent periods in Ancient Greek history. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by David Barrett with revisions, an …
Wasps and Other Plays
A new verse translation, with introduction and notes
Av Aristophanes
Häftad, 2024
118 kr
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'No matter which way you look at us, you'll find that we're in all respects; Remarkably wasp-like in our habits, in every aspect of our lives.'Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth …
Frogs
Av Aristophanes, Kenneth Dover
Häftad, 1994
797 kr
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A brilliant new commentary on one of the most famous comedies from ancient Greece, Aristophanes' Frogs. Edited by one of the world's leading scholars on Aristophanes, the book includes the complete Greek text, a comprehensive introduction, and a full and lively commentary covering just about every …
Frogs
Av Aristophanes
Häftad, 2021
69 kr
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The Frogs follows interpersonal conflicts between men and women, Greek gods, and the natural and supernatural. Using extraordinary circumstances, the author provides commentary on multiple public figures spanning religion, politics and literature. The Frogs is one of Aristophanes' most notable …
Lysistrata
Av Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson
Häftad, 1990
776 kr
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In addition to its many topical references to social life, religion, and politics in classical Athens, the Lysistrata is one of our best sources for the life of women in antiquity: unlike epic, tragedy, and oratory, Attic comedy draws its characters and plots from everyday life and provides a …
Birds and Other Plays
Av Aristophanes
Häftad, 2003
179 kr
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Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is a timeless set of comedies, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to wonderful effect. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Greek by David Barrett and Alan H. Sommerstein.The …
Lysistrata and Other Plays
Av Aristophanes
E-bok, 2003
108 kr
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The Acharnians/The Clouds/Lysistrata'We women have the salvation of Greece in our hands'Writing at a time of political and social crisis in Athens, the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes was an eloquent, yet bawdy, challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. In Lysistrata and The …
Birds and Other Plays
Av Aristophanes
E-bok, 2003
108 kr
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The plays in this volume all contain Aristophanes' trademark bawdy comedy and dazzling verbal agility. In THE BIRDS, two frustrated Athenians join the birds to build the utopian city of 'Much Cuckoo in the Clouds'. THE KNIGHTS is a venomous satire on Cleon, a prominent Athenian demagogue, while THE …
Classical Comedy
Av Aristophanes, Menander m. fl.
E-bok, 2006
108 kr
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From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes' bold, imaginative Birds, and Menander's The Girl from Samos, which explores popular …
Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays
A new verse translation, with introduction and notes
Av Aristophanes
E-bok, 2018
106 kr
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Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their brilliant combination of …
Aristophanes: Peace
Greek text with Introduction and Commentary
Av Aristophanes, S. Douglas Olson
Inbunden, 1998
6447 kr
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Aristophanes' Peace was performed at the City Dionysia in Athens in 421 BC as a decade-long war with Sparta seemed finally to be drawing to an end, and is one of only eleven extant plays by the greatest Old Comic poet. Olson's edition of the play, which replaces Platnauer's of 1969, is based on a …
Aristophanes Acharnians
Av Aristophanes, S. Douglas Olson
Inbunden, 2002
4813 kr
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Aristophanes' Acharnians was performed at the Lenaia festival in Athens in 425 BCE. The play is the story of an old peasant farmer, Dikaiopolis, who has grown so disgusted with the Peloponnesian War and the patent self-serving of the city's leading politicians (abetted by the stupidity of his …
Clouds
Av Aristophanes, Kenneth Dover
Häftad, 1989
839 kr
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During the second half of the fifth century BC, oratory was an essential skill for a successful politician. This art of persuasive speaking was one of several subjects which sophists, lesser philosophers (with whom Socrates was often identified), offered at a price. Aristophanes' Clouds, performed …
Wasps
Av Aristophanes, Douglas M. MacDowell
Häftad, 1988
618 kr
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The Wasps is one of the most entertaining and characteristic comedies of Aristophanes, and the absence of fundamental difficulties in the text makes it especially suitable for newcomers to his plays. This paperback edition (replacing the hardback first published in 1971) intended for sixth form and …
Birds, Lysistrata, Assembly-Women, Wealth
Av Aristophanes, Stephen Halliwell
Inbunden, 1997
4503 kr
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This new translation (the first complete verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies to appear for more than twenty-five years) makes freshly available one of the most remarkable comic playwrights in the entire Western tradition. Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old …
Aristophanes: Frogs
Av Aristophanes, Kenneth Dover
Häftad, 1997
1113 kr
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Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature in general. Sir Kenneth Dover's edition, with a full introduction and extensive commentary, has been the most comprehensive edition available, drawing together the …
Birds
Häftad, 1997
2678 kr
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`Aristophanes adicts unite! This book is for us. It has everything that we always wanted to know about Birds and we were unable to find in one place.' Greek Gazette `The commentary elucidates with an experts knowledge of syntax, meter, and artifacts... The volume will remain authoritative for …
Aristophanes: Frogs
Av Aristophanes, Kenneth Dover
Inbunden, 1997
3443 kr
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Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature in general. Sir Kenneth Dover's edition, with a full introduction and extensive commentary, has been the most comprehensive edition available, drawing together the …
Aristophanes: Birds
Student Edition
Häftad, 1998
1487 kr
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Of the 1995 full-length edition:`Aristophanes addicts unite! This book is for us. It has everything that we always wanted to know about Birds and we were unable to find in one place.' Greek Gazette `The commentary elucidates with an experts knowledge of syntax, meter, and artifacts.... The volume …
Wasps and Other Plays
A new verse translation, with introduction and notes
Av Aristophanes
E-bok, 2024
106 kr
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''No matter which way you look at us, you''ll find that we''re in all respects; Remarkably wasp-like in our habits, in every aspect of our lives.'' Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth …
Wasps and Other Plays
A new verse translation, with introduction and notes
Av Aristophanes
E-bok, 2024
106 kr
Lägg i varukorg
''No matter which way you look at us, you''ll find that we''re in all respects; Remarkably wasp-like in our habits, in every aspect of our lives.'' Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth …
Aristophanes: Peace
Av Aristophanes, S. Douglas Olson
Häftad, 2003
1872 kr
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Aristophanes' Peace was performed at the City Dionysia in Athens in 421 BC as a decade-long war with Sparta seemed finally to be drawing to an end, and is one of only eleven extant plays by the greatest Old Comic poet. Olson's edition of the play, which replaces Platnauer's of 1969, is based on a …
Aristophanes Acharnians
Av Aristophanes, S. Douglas Olson
Häftad, 2004
2231 kr
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Aristophanes' Acharnians was performed at the Lenaia festival in Athens in 425 BCE. The play is the story of an old peasant farmer, Dikaiopolis, who has grown so disgusted with the Peloponnesian War and the patent self-serving of the city's leading politicians (abetted by the stupidity of his …
Birds and Other Plays
Av Aristophanes
Häftad, 2008
154 kr
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Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, the exuberant, satirical form of festival drama which flourished during the heyday of classical Athenian culture in the fifth century BC. His plays are characterized by extraordinary combinations of fantasy and satire, …
