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Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito, and Aristophanes' Clouds

Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito, and Aristophanes' Clouds more books like this

by Plato, Thomas West (Editor), Grace West (Editor)

This book offers translations of four major works of ancient Greek literature which treat the life and thought of Socrates, focusing particularly on his trial and defense (the Platonic dialogues Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, and Crito) and on the charges against Socrates (Aristophanes' comedy the Clouds). This is the only collection of the three ...

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Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata

Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata more books like this

by Aristophanes, William Arrowsmith (Editor), Professor Richmond Lattimore (Translator)

The acknowledged master of Greek comedy, Aristophanes brilliantly combines serious political satire with bawdiness, pyrotechnical bombast with delicate lyrics. This volumes features his four most celebrated masterpieces: THE CLOUDS, THE BIRDS, LYSISTRATA, and THE FROGS. Three of the leading translators of the 20th century--William Arrowsmith, ...

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Lysistrata and Other Plays: The Acharnians, the Clouds, Lysistrata

Lysistrata and Other Plays: The Acharnians, the Clouds, Lysistrata more books like this

by Aristophanes, Alan H Sommerstein (Translator)

Writing at a time when Athens was undergoing a crisis in its social attitudes, Aristophanes was an eloquent opponent of the demagogue and the sophist. This collection includes "Lysistrata", the hilariously bawdy anti-war fantasy; "The Acharnians", a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta; and "The Clouds", a satire ...

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Lysistrata

Lysistrata more books like this

by Aristophanes

Aristophanes' Lysistrata was last edited in 1928, and the last commentary was in 1927; the only previous edition in English appeared in 1911. The present edition brings the play up to date in terms of the advances made in Aristophanic scholarship in the past sixty years. In particular, it is the first to report all the manuscripts, papyri, and ...

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Lysistrata and Other Plays

Lysistrata and Other Plays more books like this

by Aristophanes, Alan H Sommerstein (Translator)

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Complete Plays of Aristophanes

Complete Plays of Aristophanes more books like this

by Aristophanes

Extravagant power of invention and remarkable comic vitality make Aristophanes one of the most brilliant of the ancient Greek playwrights. From the hilariously bawdy yet fundamentally serious play Lysistrata, to the creative fantasy of the Birds, to his comic masterpiece the Frogs, Aristophanes displays the biting satire, exquisite lyricism, and ...

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Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women

Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women more books like this

by Aristophanes

Aristophanes' comic plays, Lysistrata, Women at the Thesmophoria and Assemblywomen contain the earliest portrayals of actual women in the European literary tradition, and are the only such portrayals that survive from classical Athens. These plays provide a unique glimpse of women not only in their familiar domestic roles but also in relation to ...

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Birds and Other Plays

Birds and Other Plays more books like this

by Aristophanes, Stephen Halliwell (Translator)

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, sophistication and vulgarity, formality and freedom. Birds ...

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Lysistrata

Lysistrata more books like this

by Dr. Sarah Ruden, Aristophanes

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led by the title character, the women of the warring city-states of Greece agree to withhold sexual favours with their husbands until they agree to cease fighting. The war of the sexes that ensues makes 'Lysistrata' a comedy without peer in the history ...

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The frogs, and other plays

The frogs, and other plays more books like this

by Aristophanes

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 ...

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Aristophanes: The Complete Plays more books like this

by Aristophanes, Paul Roche (Translator)

A brand-new translation of the world's greatest satirist. With a signature style that is at once bawdy and delicate, as well as a fearless penchant for lampooning the rich and powerful, Aristophanes remains arguably the finest satirist of all time. Collected here are all 11 of his surviving plays-newly translated by the distinguished poet and ...

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Aristophanes' the Birds more books like this

by Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson (Translator)

One of Aristophanes' greatest comedies available with notes and introduction by Jeffrey Henderson, one of the most important scholars and translators of Greek comedy. Translation in English with notes, map and introduction. One of Aristophanes greatest comedies. Considered by many to be his masterpiece, it is the story of birds taking control of ...

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Aristophanes: Peace more books like this

by Aristophanes, S Douglas Olson (Editor)

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 complete new collation of the manuscripts, many of ...

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Aristophanes 1: Clouds, Wasps, Birds more books like this

by Aristophanes, Peter Meineck (Adapted by), Gregory Dobrov (Adapted by)

Originally adapted for the stage, Peter Meineck's revised translations achieve a level of fidelity appropriate for classroom use while managing to preserve the wit and energy that led The New Yorker to judge his Clouds "The best Greek drama we've ever seen anywhere." and The Times Literary Supplement to describe his Wasps as "Hugely enjoyable and ...

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Three Comedies more books like this

by University of Michigan Press, Aristophanes, William Arrowsmith (Editor)

Contains The Birds, The Clouds, and The Wasps

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Aristophanes Clouds more books like this

by Aristophanes, Kenneth J Dover (Editor)

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 in its original version in 423 BC, is a witty and ...

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The Knights; Peace; The Birds; The Assembly Women; Wealth: 3 more books like this

by Aristophanes, David Barrett (Translator), Alan H Sommerstein (Translator)

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Four Comedies more books like this

by Aristophanes, Dudley Fitts (Editor)

Contains Lysistrata, The Congresswomen, The Acharnians, and The Frogs

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Aristophanes. more books like this

by Aristophanes. [from old catalog]

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.

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The Birds and Other Plays: The Knights/Peace/Wealth/The Assembly Women more books like this

by Aristophanes, David Barrett (Translator), Alan H Sommerstein (Translator)

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 Assembly Women" deals with the battle of the ...

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The Clouds/The Pot of Gold more books like this

by Aristophanes, Plautus, Peter D Arnott (Editor)

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The Birds/The Brothers Menaechmus: Two Classical Comedies more books like this

by Aristophanes, Plautus, Peter D Arnott (Translator)

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Aristophanes Frogs more books like this

by Aristophanes, Sir Kenneth Dover (Editor)

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 relevant scholarship that has accumulated on the ...

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Aristophanes: Birds, Lysistrata, Assembly-Women, Wealth more books like this

by Aristophanes, Stephen Halliwell (Editor)

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 Comedy, which flourished during the heyday of classical ...

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Aristophanes Acharnians more books like this

by Aristophanes, S Douglas Olson (Editor)

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 fellow-citizens) that he concludes a separate peace ...

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