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    Aristophanes: Wasps

    Craig Jendza

    This is the first book-length study dedicated to Aristophanes' Wasps (422 BCE), which is arguably one of his most hilarious and inventive comedies. At the heart of Wasps is a…

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    Aristophanes: Knights

    Aristophanes' Knights was the first comic drama devoted to a sustained, open satire of an individual political figure and also the first play Aristophanes produced in his own name. This…

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    Lysistrata, Women at the Thesmophoria, Frogs

    Aristophanes

    "Arnson Svarlien's translation offers fresh insight into three of Aristophanes's greatest comedies. The verse flows smoothly, and throughout it is stressed that these plays belong on a stage, with guidance…

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    Wasps and Other Plays

    Aristophanes

    This is the third and final volume of a new verse translation of the complete plays of Aristophanes by Stephen Halliwell. The translations combine accuracy with an attempt to capture…

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    The Clouds of Aristophanes

    Aristophanes

    The Clouds by Aristophanes offers a sharp and witty critique of the intellectual movements that swept through late fifth-century Athens.

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    Aristophanes

    Jill Dudley

    Life and works of comic dramatist Aristophenes.

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    The Clouds

    Aristophanes

    "The Clouds" is a timeless Greek comedy written by Aristophanes, renowned for its sharp wit, satire, and philosophical inquiry. Set in ancient Athens, this comedic masterpiece follows the misadventures of…

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    The Acharnians of Aristophanes

    Robert Yelverton Tyrrell

    Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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    The Birds of Aristophanes

    Aristophanes, John Hookham Frere

    Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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    The Acharnians of Aristophanes

    Robert Yelverton Tyrrell

    Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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    The Birds of Aristophanes

    Aristophanes, John Hookham Frere

    Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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    The Spirit of Aristophanes

    Mary C English, Dustin W Dixon

    Explores Aristophanic comedy and traces key features through Greek and Latin literature

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    A Companion to Aristophanes

    Provides a comprehensive and systematic treatment of the life and work of Aristophanes

    A Companion to Aristophanes provides an invaluable set of foundational resources for undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars…

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    Nine Greek Dramas

    Eschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes

    This book contains a collection in the style of drama from famous Greek authors.

    The translation of those writing works was made by E. D. A. Morshead, E. H. Plumptre…

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    Lysistrata

    Aristophanes

    In Aristophanes' Lysistrata, the women of Greece, led by the bold Lysistrata, unite to end the Peloponnesian War by denying men their desires. This timeless comedy blends sharp wit, political…

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    Lysistrata and Other Plays

    Aristophanes

    Collecting three comedies that show Aristophanes tackling the consequences of war and social upheaval in Athens with his characteristic wit, this title shows the political and social crisis in Athens…

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    Frogs and Other Plays

    Aristophanes

    Offers insight into one of the turbulent periods in Ancient Greek history. This book is written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to Underworld to bring back a poet who…

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    Aristophanes’ Apology. Including a Transcript from Euripides, Being the Last Adventure of Balaustion

    Robert Browning

    Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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    Aristophanes’ Apology. Including a Transcript from Euripides, Being the Last Adventure of Balaustion

    Robert Browning

    Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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    Comedy in Literature and Popular Culture

    James V. Morrison

    Comedy in Literature and Popular Culture explores works of comedy from the past 2,500 years. This vibrant study offers a compelling analyses of comedy as a mode, form, and genre…

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    Comedy in Literature and Popular Culture

    James V. Morrison

    Comedy in Literature and Popular Culture explores works of comedy from the past 2,500 years. This vibrant study offers a compelling analyses of comedy as a mode, form, and genre…

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    Demagogues, Power, and Friendship in Classical Athens

    Professor Robert Holschuh Simmons

    What makes a demagogue? A much more friendly touch, or more importantly, a perception of a friendly touch, than has previously been explored. Demagogues, Power and Friendship in Classical Athens…

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    The Play of Language in Ancient Greek Comedy

    Within this volume, aspects of linguistic humour in ancient Greek comedy are explored. A rich repertoire of verbal artifices and types of joke is analysed, with emphasis on their contribution…

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    The Wasps

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    As in his other early plays, Aristophanes pokes satirical fun at the demagogue Cleon but in The Wasps he also ridicules one of the Athenian institutions that provided Cleon with…

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    The Frogs

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    The Frogs tells the story of the god Dionysus, despairing of the state of Athens’ tragedians, and allegedly recovering from the disastrous Battle of Arginusae. He travels to Hades to…

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    The Eleven Comedies -Complete-

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    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…

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    The Eleven Comedies -Vol. 2-

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    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…

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    The Eleven Comedies -Vol. 1-

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    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…

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    The Ecclesiazusae -0r- Women in Council

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    The play concerns a group of women, the leader of which is Praxagora. She has decided that the women must convince the men to give them control of Athens, because…

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    The Birds

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    Unlike the author’s other early plays, it includes no direct mention of the Peloponnesian War and there are few references to Athenian politics, and yet it was staged not long…

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    The Acharnians

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    The play is notable for its absurd humour, its imaginative appeal for an end to the Peloponnesian War and for the author’s spirited response to condemnations of his previous play…

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    Peace

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    The play is notable for its joyous anticipation of peace and for its celebration of a return to an idyllic life in the countryside. However, it also sounds a note…

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    Lysistrata

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace - a strategy, however, that…

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    The Knights

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    The play is a satire on the social and political life of classical Athens during the Peloponnesian War and in this respect it is typical of all the dramatist’s early…

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    Peace

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    The play is notable for its joyous anticipation of peace and for its celebration of a return to an idyllic life in the countryside. However, it also sounds a note…

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    The Acharnians

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    The play is notable for its absurd humour, its imaginative appeal for an end to the Peloponnesian War and for the author’s spirited response to condemnations of his previous play…

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    The Birds

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    Unlike the author’s other early plays, it includes no direct mention of the Peloponnesian War and there are few references to Athenian politics, and yet it was staged not long…

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    The Ecclesiazusae -0r- Women in Council

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    The play concerns a group of women, the leader of which is Praxagora. She has decided that the women must convince the men to give them control of Athens, because…

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    The Eleven Comedies -Vol. 2-

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    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…

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    The Eleven Comedies -Complete-

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    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…

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    The Frogs

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    The Frogs tells the story of the god Dionysus, despairing of the state of Athens’ tragedians, and allegedly recovering from the disastrous Battle of Arginusae. He travels to Hades to…

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    The Thesmophoriazusae -Or- Women’s Festival

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    It is now considered one of Aristophanes’ most brilliant parodies of Athenian society, with a particular focus on the subversive role of women in a male-dominated society, the vanity of…

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    The Wasps

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    As in his other early plays, Aristophanes pokes satirical fun at the demagogue Cleon but in The Wasps he also ridicules one of the Athenian institutions that provided Cleon with…

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    The Knights

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    The play is a satire on the social and political life of classical Athens during the Peloponnesian War and in this respect it is typical of all the dramatist’s early…

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    Fragments [I.E. Selected Plays], Parts 1-2

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…

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    Aristophanis Ranae

    Aristophanes Aristophanes

    This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…

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