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Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito, and Aristophanes' Clouds
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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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Lysistrata
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Aristophanes
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 unique glimpse into the situation of everyday Athenians ...
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Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata
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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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Clouds
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Aristophanes
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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Lysistrata and Other Plays
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Aristophanes, Alan H Sommerstein (Translator)
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Complete Plays of Aristophanes
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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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Lysistrata and Other Plays: The Acharnians, the Clouds, Lysistrata
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Aristophanes, Alan H Sommerstein (Translator)
Aristophones was a contemporary of Socrates and the last and greatest of the old Attic comedians, but unfortunately only 11 of his plays survive. Of these, this title contains three: "Lysistrata", "The Acharnians", and "The Clouds". Aristophenes was sceptical about the democratic system of government and was critical of the eagerness with which ...
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The frogs, and other plays
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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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The frogs
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Aristophanes
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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Birds
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Aristophanes
'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 generations.' Religious Studies Review This is the first ...
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Four Comedies
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Aristophanes, William Arrowsmith (Editor)
Contains Lysistrata, The Congresswomen, The Acharnians, and The Frogs
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Aristophanes 1: Clouds, Wasps, Birds
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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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Aristophanes: The Complete Plays
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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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Three Comedies
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University of Michigan Press, Aristophanes, William Arrowsmith (Editor)
Contains The Birds, The Clouds, and The Wasps
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Aristophanes: The Clouds--An Annotated Translation
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Aristophanes, Marie C Marianetti (Translator)
The three Aristophanes plays collected here, first performed around 400 B.C., are among the world's most enduring comedies. In WEALTH, the god of Wealth is cured of his blindness and can suddenly see the difference between good and bad. In FROGS, Dionysus is given the task of judging an underworld drama competition between Aeschylus and Euripides. ...
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Aristophanes' the Birds
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Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson (Translator)
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 the government, called in this translation Cloudcuckooland.
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Lysistrata
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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 Acharnians
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Aristophanes
This is the first of the series of three Comedies-'The Acharnians, ' 'Peace' and 'Lysistrata'-produced at intervals of years, the sixth, tenth and twenty-first of the Peloponnesian War, and impressing on the Athenian people the miseries and disasters due to it and to the scoundrels who by their selfish and reckless policy had provoked it, the ...
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Aristophanes.
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Aristophanes. [from old catalog]
Aristophanes wrote most of his comedic masterpieces during the Peloponnesian wars, parodying the tumultuous politics and society of that time with trademark innuendoes and bawdy stagings and dialogue. In these plays, Aristophanes brings every rhetorical strategem into play to treat the reader to stories of one man's attempt to create a "war-free ...
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The Eleven Comedies
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Aristophanes
The Clouds, Lysistrata, Peace, The Acharnians, The Knights
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Lysistrata: A Modern Translation
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Aristophanes, William Arrowsmith (Editor), Douglass Parker (Translator)
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The Wasps
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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. In its political aspect it attacks ...
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Nine Greek Dramas (1909)
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Sophocles Euripides Aeschylus, Aristophanes
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Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women
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Aristophanes, J Henderson
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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Aristophanes: Peace
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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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