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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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Wasps and Other Plays

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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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Lysistrata, Women at the Thesmophoria, Frogs

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"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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The Clouds of Aristophanes

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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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The Wasps

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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. 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 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Aristophanis Ranae

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Le Nuvole

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The Birds of Aristophanes, with Notes by C.C. Felton

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

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Lysistrata

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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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Plutus

Aristophanes Aristophanes

The play features an elderly Athenian citizen, Chremylos, and his slave Cario or Carion. Chremylos presents himself and his family as virtuous but poor, and has accordingly gone to seek…

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Extrait Du Plutus

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Plutus

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The play features an elderly Athenian citizen, Chremylos, and his slave Cario or Carion. Chremylos presents himself and his family as virtuous but poor, and has accordingly gone to seek…

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The Clouds

Aristophanes Aristophanes

The Clouds can be considered not only the world’s first extant ‘comedy of ideas’ but also a brilliant and successful example of that genre. The play gained notoriety for its…

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The Clouds

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The Clouds can be considered not only the world’s first extant ‘comedy of ideas’ but also a brilliant and successful example of that genre. The play gained notoriety for its…

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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 Eleven Comedies

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Potter’s Field ..

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