Aristophanes
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 ... [... more]
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Aristophanes Plays: II: Wasps, Clouds, Birds, Festival ...
 Author: Aristophanes Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780413669100 ISBN: 0413669106 Number Of Pages: 398 Publication Date: 2003-07-01 [... more]
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Aristophanes' the Birds
Trusting Pisthetaerus builds a utopian city for the Birds: The problem with "The Birds" ("Ornithes") is that for once Aristophanes does not seem to be attacking some specific abuse in Athens. Still, we suspect that even this little [... more]
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Aristophanes, III, Birds. Lysistrata. Women at the ...
THE modern Aristophanes translation: Professor Henderson's new translations of Aristophanes are uncensored, readable, fresh, and ultimately extremely enjoyable. He captures how Aristophanes probably would write if he lived today, with frank yet poetic [... more]
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Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women
Can You Say That?: Let me start by saying that this book has the best translations of Aristophanes that I've ever read. Henderson's translations contain really obscene language. That is not to say that I only liked it for the swears. The flow of the play [... more]
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Complete Plays of Aristophanes
a dreadful translation of classic work: do NOT purchase this translation. it makes one of the funniest writers of all time boring. this translation is as bad as the previous reviewers have indicated. the best, and most hilarious, translation that i've [... more]
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Aristophanes: Peace
A farmer rides a giant dung-beetle to heaven to stop the war: A farmer by the name of Trygaeus is weary of war and despairing of relief he does want anyone would do: he rides a giant dung-beetle up to heaven to get the gods to end the war. However, the [... more]
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Aristophanes
Our only example of Middle Comedy from Aristophanes: "Wealth" ("Plutus") has always been of more than passing interest to drama historians because this comedy by Aristophanes, produced in 388 B.C., is our only example of the Middle [... more]
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Aristophanes, II, Clouds. Wasps. Peace
Author: Aristophanes Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 882.01 EAN: 9780674995376 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0674995376 Number Of Pages: 624 Publication Date: 1998-12-15 [... more]
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Four Plays By Aristophanes
the best translators around: If you're loooking for a good collection of Aristophenes for casual use or reference, this is it. These translations are excellent, far better than the so-so translations that Aristophenes usually recieves. Highly recommended. [... more]
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Aristophanes' Acharnians Lysistrata Clouds
Two comedies by Aristophanes in Greek and English: The Loeb Classical Library features the original Greek texts that remain for both of these comedies by Aristophanes and is obviously of great benefit to those who actually read Greek and are interested [... more]
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Aristophanes, I, Acharnians. Knights
Two comedies by Aristophanes in Greek and English: The Loeb Classical Library features the original Greek texts that remain for both of these comedies by Aristophanes and is obviously of great benefit to those who actually read Greek and are interested [... more]
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