The Eleven Comedies: Literally and Completely Translated from the Greek Tongue Into English with Translator`s Foreword, an Introduction to, Aristophanes Aristophanes

Автор: Aristophanes
Название: The Frogs
ISBN: 1169239781 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781169239784
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Автор: Gunn Drewey Wayne
Название: For the Gay Stage: A Guide to 456 Plays, Aristophanes to Peter Gill
ISBN: 1476670196 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476670195
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Explores the total sweep of gay plays published in English, not just those that were produced on Broadway and in London`s West End. In addition to Off- and Off-Off-Broadway and regional theatre offerings, plays from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Puerto Rico and South Africa are inlcuded. Translations from other languages are also given their due place.

Автор: White John Williams
Название: The Stage in Aristophanes (Classic Reprint)
ISBN: 1333464681 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781333464684
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Описание: Excerpt from The "Stage" In Aristophanes

If this explanation of the five passages is correct, these are the re sults. It is shown that the old interpretation of the terms ascend and 'descend') is impossible for the Vitruvian stage in the third and fifth passages; moreover, in the fifth, that the sense 'retire' is also impossible in the scholiast's application of the meaning, since actors and chorus are on a level. The last passage, therefore, is positive proof against the existence of a stage.

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Автор: Aristophanes Aristophanes
Название: The Eleven Comedies -Complete-
ISBN: 1515428958 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781515428954
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Описание: Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they are in fact used to define the genre. Also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy, Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author.

Автор: Storey, Ian C. (trent University, Canada)
Название: Aristophanes: peace
ISBN: 1350020222 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350020221
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This is the first volume dedicated to Aristophanes' comedy Peace that analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Greek. It launches a much-needed new series of books each discussing a comedy that survives from the ancient world. Six chapters highlight the play's context, themes, staging and legacy including its response to contemporary wartime politics and the possible staging options for flying. It is ideal for students, but helpful also for scholars wanting a quick introduction to the play.

Peace was first performed in 421 BC, perhaps only days before the signing of a peace treaty that ended ten years of fighting between Athens and Sparta (the Archidamian War). Aristophanes celebrates this prospect with an imaginative fantasy involving his hero's flight on a gigantic dung-beetle to Olympus, the rescue of the goddess Peace from her imprisonment in a cave, and her return to a Greece weary of ten years of war. Like most of the poet's comedies, this play is heavy on fantasy and imagination, light on formal structure, being an exuberant farce that champions the opponents of War and celebrates the delights of the return to country life with its smells, food and drink, its many pleasures and none of the complications that war brings in its wake.

Автор: Aristophanes
Название: Three Plays by Aristophanes: Peace, Birds, and Wealth
ISBN: 1589880781 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781589880788
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In these three raucous comedies, mortals outwit and even replace Zeus and other Olympian deities of the Greek Pantheon. As Aristophanes provokes laughter at the foibles of gods and men, he arouses wonder at our human need for the divine.

"The three comic heroes in the plays included here raise the questions of whether there are gods, who they might be, how powerful they are, and how they might be changed or eliminated. Although the precise form of such questions changes from age to age, these are questions that are inseparable from political life; and they certainly are powerfully present in our own day...great theorists and architects of the modern liberal state designed its contours partly with an eye on the goal of diminishing the role of religion in the public square. Not unlike our three comic heroes, they wanted to reduce dependence on "Zeus" and his priests. In his place, and like our three heroes, they sought peace, wealth, and human rulers liberated from exaggerated piety. And nowadays the so-called New Atheists are pressing the case that it is high time for a final defeat and elimination of the powers of darkness that, in their view, have cost us so much blood and treasure...Aristophanes was not a modern liberal; still less would he agree with the New Atheists' advocacy of universal public atheism. He does, however, put dissatisfaction with the gods at the center of the three plays included here, does bestow victories on the human critics of those gods, and does invite us to think with him about the justice of their causes, the tactics behind their victories, and the limits of their successes."--From the Introduction

Aristophanes was a prolific and much acclaimed comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author.

Thomas Lee Pangle holds the Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies at the University of Texas.

Wayne Ambler is associate professor in the Herbst Program of Humanities for Engineers at the University of Colorado.