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Frogs (Paperback)
Aristophanes; Edited by Jeffrey Henderson
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This is an English translation of Aristophanes' popular comedy in
which the god Dionysus seeks to bring the great dramatist Euripides
from Hades, where he encounters another great Classical playwright,
Aeschylus. Includes background material on the historical and
cultural context of this work, suggestions for further reading, and
notes. The Focus Classical Library provides close translations with
notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture
and the roots of contemporary thought.
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 very, very funny. A general Introduction,
introductions to the plays, and detailed notes on staging, history,
religious practice and myth combine to make this a remarkably
useful teaching text.
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 have failed to capture
Aristophanes's poetic genius. Aaron Poochigian, the first
poet-classicist to tackle these plays in a generation, offers
"effortlessly readable and genuinely theatrical" (Simon Armitage)
versions of four of Aristophanes's most entertaining, provocative
and lyrically ingenious comedies, finally giving
twenty-first-century readers a sense of the subversive pleasure
audiences felt when these works were first performed on the
Athenian stage.
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Lysistrata (Paperback)
Aristophanes; Edited by Jeffrey Henderson
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English translation. "Lysistrata", the most popular of
Aristophanes' plays, appeals to the modern reader because of its
lively and imaginative plot, memorable heroine, good jokes, and
appeal for peace and tolerance between nations and between the
sexes. Includes background material on the historical and cultural
context of this work, suggestions for further reading, notes, and
map.
This line-for-line translation of Aristophanes' best-known comedy
features an Introduction on Old Comedy, and the place of Clouds and
Aristophanic comedy within it. Footnotes and more detailed endnotes
further distinguish this edition of a play famous for its
caricature of Socrates and of the "new learning."
Aristophanes, 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. This is
the fourth and final volume in the new Loeb Classical Library
edition of his plays.
"Frogs" was produced in 405 BCE, shortly after the deaths of
Sophocles and Euripides. Dionysus, the patron god of theater,
journeys to the underworld to retrieve Euripides. There he is
recruited to judge a contest between the traditional Aeschylus and
the modern Euripides, a contest that yields both sparkling comedy
and insight on ancient literary taste. In" Assemblywomen" Athenian
women plot to save Athens from male misgovernance. They transfer
power to themselves and institute a new social order in which all
inequalities based on wealth, age, and beauty are eliminatedwith
raucously comical results. The gentle humor and straightforward
morality of" Wealth" made it the most popular of Aristophanes'
plays from classical times to the Renaissance. Here the god Wealth
is cured of his blindness; his newfound ability to distinguish good
people from bad brings playfully portrayed social consequences.
This volume is the first edition with commentary since 1907 of
AristophanesAe last surviving play, in which, as so often before,
an audacious and imaginative hero finds a miraculous remedy for the
all-too-real ills of the contemporary worlduin this case the
concentration of wealth in the hands of those who donAet deserve it
at the expense of those who do. To achieve this he needs the aid of
no less than three gods, and the play contains the fullest single
surviving account of a visit to a sanctuary of the healing god
Asclepius. This volume will include the ADDENDA to all previous
plays, but the INDEXES proved far more extensive than anticipated
and will now be published as a separate volume 12 to complete the
Aristophanes series.
This volume completes the twelve-volume series The Comedies of
Aristophanes, begun in 1980, and is comprised of comprehensive
indexes to the preceding eleven volumes. The book is divided into
three parts: I. Texts and Passages, II. Persons, and III. General.
Alan H Sommerstein is Professor of Greek and Director of the Centre
for Ancient Drama and its Reception, University of Nottingham.
This volume completes the twelve-volume series The Comedies of
Aristophanes, begun in 1980, and is comprised of comprehensive
indexes to the preceding eleven volumes. The book is divided into
three parts: I. Texts and Passages, II. Persons, and III. General.
Alan H Sommerstein is Professor of Greek and Director of the Centre
for Ancient Drama and its Reception, University of Nottingham.
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 is an escapist fantasy in which two
dissatisfied Athenians, in defiance of men and gods, bring about a
city of birds, the eponymous Cloudcuckooland. In Lysistrata the
heroine of the play organizes a sex-strike and the wives of Athens
occupy the Akropolis in an attempt to restore peace to the city.
The main source of comedy in the Assembly-Women is a similar
usurpation of male power as the women attempt to reform Athenian
society along utopian-communist lines. Finally, Wealth is
Aristophanes' last surviving comedy, in which Ploutos, the god of
wealth is cured of his blindness and the remarkable social
consequences of his new discrimination are exemplified. This is the
first complete verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies to
appear for more than twenty-five years and makes freshly available
one of the most remarkable comic playwrights in the entire Western
tradition, complete with an illuminating introduction including
play by play analysis and detailed notes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For
over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the
widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable
volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the
most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features,
including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful
notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further
study, and much more.
Knights was the first play to be produced by Aristophanes on his
own behalf. In it, he launched a violent attack on Cleon, the
leading politician of the day, on the whole style of leadership
that he represented and on a system which seemed to guarantee that
a bad leader could be displaced by a worse. This edition presents
the Greek text with facing-page translation, introduction,
commentary and notes.
Richard Janko's acclaimed translation of Aristotle's Poetics is
accompanied by the most comprehensive commentary available in
English that does not presume knowledge of the original Greek. Two
other unique features are Janko's translations with notes of both
the Tractatus Coislinianus , which is argued to be a summary of the
lost second book of the Poetics, and fragments of Aristotle's
dialogue On Poets, including recently discovered texts about
catharsis, which appear in English for the first time.
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Lysistrata (Paperback)
Aristophanes; Contributions by Mint Editions
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Lysistrata and Other Plays centers a disgruntled woman whose
attempt to end a war takes the battle from an open field to the
soldier's bedroom. Wives from both camps deny their husbands basic
affection in an effort to quell the violence. Set during the
Peloponnesian War, the women of Greece, led by Lysistrata, create a
plan to stifle the conflict between Athens and Sparta. Together,
they agree to stage a sex strike, refusing to sleep with their
husbands until a resolution is met. The strategy has an undeniable
effect on politicians, generals and soldiers eager for a return to
normalcy. It dramatically changes the focus of the warring parties,
signifying the potential for peace. Lysistrata and Other Plays
confronts gender norms and empowers those who are often
marginalized. It's a common theme in Aristophanes' work that is
also found in The Assemblywomen and Thesmophoriazusae. This
political satire illustrates how fundamental needs always take
precedence over superficial wants. With an eye-catching new cover,
and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Lysistrata
and Other Plays is both modern and readable.
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Fragments (Hardcover)
Aristophanes; Edited by Jeffrey Henderson
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The eleven plays by Aristophanes that have come down to us intact
brilliantly illuminate the eventful period spanned by his
forty-year career, beginning with the first production in 427 BCE.
But the Athenians knew much more of his work: over forty plays by
Aristophanes were read in antiquity, of which nearly a thousand
fragments survive. These provide a fuller picture of the poet's
ever astonishing comic vitality and a wealth of information and
insights about his world. Jeffrey Henderson's new, widely acclaimed
Loeb edition of Aristophanes is completed by this volume containing
what survives from, and about, his lost plays, hitherto
inaccessible to the nonspecialist, and incorporating the enormous
scholarly advances that have been achieved in recent years.
Each fragmentary play is prefaced by a summary of what can be
inferred about its plot, characters, themes, theatricality, and
topical significance. Also included in this edition are the ancient
reports about Aristophanes' life, works, and influence on the later
comic tradition.
Aristophanes's classic send-up of rivalry within the
ultra-competitive world of fifth-century Athenian theatre wins a
new lease on life in this fresh line-for-line translation by Peter
Meineck. Premiered in 2021 by Aquila Theatre and accompanied here
by Meineck's notes and wide-ranging Introduction, this Frogs offers
the best view yet of a high-stakes afterlife contest between two of
Athens's late great playwrights. Both are undisputed masters of
tragedy. But only one can win and return to save the city.
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Words of Wisdom from Ancient Greece (Hardcover)
Aeschylus, Aesop, Alexander the Great, Anaxagoras, Antisthenes, Aristotle, Aristophanes, Bias of Pri Citium; Translated by Alexander Zaphiriou; Cover design or artwork by Panagiotis Stavropoulos; Illustrated by Panagiotis Stavropoulos
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His poetry sings of the beauty of the natural world and offers a
vision of the paradise that the world could be, but it is also
imbued with a deep and painful awareness of the dark abyss that it
threatens to become. For Vrettakos, the poet has a role to play in
this struggle to determine the fate of the world. He is the
champion of light and truth, the high priest of beauty, whose duty
it is to celebrate the world, proclaiming the cosmic message of
love as that which cuts paths across the darkness. He knows only
too well, however, that the poets voice, like Gods, is seldom
heeded. Works translated from Aeschylus; Aesop; Alexander The
Great; Anaxagoras; Antisthenes; Aristotle; Aristophanes; Bias of
Priene; Chilon of Sparta; Cleobulus of Lindos; Democritus;
Demosthenes; Diogenes; Epicurus; Epictetus; Euripides; Heraclitus;
Hesiod; Hippocrates; Homer; Isocrates; Menander; Periander; Pindar;
Pittacus of Mytilene; Plato; Plutarch; Protagoras; Pythagoras;
Socrates; Solon; Sophocles; Thales of Miletus; Theocritus;
Thucydides; Xenophon; Zeno Of Citium.
Estas obras marcan el fin de la comedia anligua de Aristofanes. En
Las nubes y Las ranas el tema comun es el de la educacion en
relacion con la vida intelectual de Atenas. Ambas son esplendidos
documentos de ese mundo intelectual y poetico, caricaturizado a
veces en exceso. En Pluto el tema de la educacion es tambien el
punto de partida, pero sobre todo la distribucion injusta de la
riqueza.
Lampooned in 406 B.C.E. in a blistering Aristophanic satire,
Socrates was tried in 399 B.C.E. on a charge of corrupting the
youth, convicted by a jury of about five hundred of his peers, and
condemned to death. Glimpsed today through the extant writings of
his contemporaries and near-contemporaries, he remains for us as
compelling, enigmatic, and elusive a figure as Jesus or Buddha.
Although present-day (like ancient Greek) opinion on the real
Socrates diverges widely, six classic texts that any informed
judgment of him must take into account appear together, for the
first time, in this volume. Those of Plato and Xenophon appear in
new, previously unpublished translations that combine accuracy,
accessibility, and readability; that of Aristophanes' Clouds offers
these same qualities in an unbowdlerized translation that captures
brilliantly the bite of Aristophanes' wit. An Introduction to each
text and judicious footnotes provide crucial background information
and important cross-references.
Another in the Focus Classical Library modern translations of works
from the Classical world. This series of translations is noted for
the clarity of translation and fidelity to the intent of the
original work, with notes and an introduction that provide the
student with access to the intent of the author in the original. As
such these works are outstanding for their ability to provide the
reader with the sense of the original as it was understood in its
time and an excellent starting point for any interpretation or
adaptation. The "Acharnians" is one of Aristophanes' anti-war
comedies.
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The Birds (Paperback)
Aristophanes; Edited by Jeffrey Henderson
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This is an English translation of Aristophanes' greatest comedy the
Birds and is the story of birds taking control of the government.
Includes background material on the historical and cultural context
of this work, suggestions for further reading, and notes. Focus
Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays
to provide access to understanding Greek culture.
The acknowledged master of Greek comedy, Aristophanes brilliantly
combines serious political satire with bawdiness, pyrotechnical
bombast with delicate lyrics. "Lysistrata and Other Plays" features
his four most celebrated masterpieces: THE CLOUDS, THE BIRDS,
LYSISTRATA, and THE FROGS. This edition features wonderful
translations of "The Clouds," "The Birds," "Lysistrata," and "The
Frogs." The humor and satire is well-managed within the
translation, particularly within "Lysistrata." The bantering
dialogue within the play is hilarious from the exhortations of the
women to their fellow sisters to abstain from sex with their men
(regardless of their own strong, womanly desires) to the
tongue-in-cheek dialogue between a teasing wife and her impatient
husband, to the final division of land to be 'presented' in the
form of a nude lady acting as a visual aid. "Lysistrata and Other
Plays " includes THE CLOUDS. The most controversial of
Aristophanes' plays, it is a brilliant caricature of the
philosopher Socrates, seen as a wily sophist who teaches men to
cheat through cunning argument. THE BIRDS: This portrayal of a
flawed utopia called Cloudcuckooland is an enchanting escape into
the world of free-flying fantasy that explores the eternal dilemmas
of man on earth. LYSISTRATA: In the twenty-first year of the
Peloponnesian War, the women of Athens and Sparta, tired of the
incessant fighting between their men, resolve to withhold sex from
their husbands until peace is settled. THE FROGS: Visiting the
underworld, the god Dionysus seeks the counsel of the dead
tragedians Aeschylus and Euripides on how to bring good writing
back to Athens. A fierce debate - full of scathing insults and
literary satire - ensues between the two dramatists.
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