The Clouds
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2013-07-23
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 1291499547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaugh out loud! Aristophanes' hilarious satire, as dramatic and effective now as in fifth-century Athens.
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Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2013-07-23
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 1291499547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaugh out loud! Aristophanes' hilarious satire, as dramatic and effective now as in fifth-century Athens.
Author: Aristophanes
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 138
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: S. Douglas Olson
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780472054770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new text and commentary on one of Aristophanes' greatest and most influential plays.
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Published: 2021-02-16
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 1631496336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCapturing the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquity’s greatest comedies, Aaron Poochigian’s Aristophanes: Four Plays brings these classic dramas to vivid life for a twenty-first century audience. The citizens of ancient Athens enjoyed a freedom of speech as broad as our own. This freedom, parrhesia, the right to say what one pleased, how and when one pleased, and to whom, had no more fervent champion than the brilliant fifth-century comic playwright Aristophanes. His plays, immensely popular with the Athenian public, were frequently crude, even obscene. He ridiculed the great and the good of the city, showing up their hypocrisy and arrogance in ways that went far beyond the standards of good taste, securing the ire (and sometimes the retaliation) of his powerful targets. He showed his contemporaries, and he teaches us now, that when those in power act obscenely, patriotic obscenity is a fitting response. Aristophanes’s satirical masterpieces were also surpassingly virtuosic works of poetry. The metrical variety of his plays has always thrilled readers who can access the original Greek, but until now, English translations have failed to capture their lyrical genius. Aaron Poochigian, the first poet-classicist to tackle these plays in a generation, brings back to life four of Aristophanes’s most entertaining, wickedly crude, and frequently beautiful lyric comedies—the pinnacle of his comic art: · Clouds, a play famous for its caricature of antiquity’s greatest philosopher, Socrates; · Lysistrata, in which a woman convinces her female compatriots to withhold sex from their warmongering lovers unless they negotiate peace; · Birds, in which feathered creatures build a great city and become like gods; · and Women of the Assembly, Aristophones’s most revolutionary play, which inverts the norms of gender and power. Poochigian’s new rendering of these comic masterpieces finally gives contemporary readers a sense of the subversive pleasure Aristophones’s original audiences felt when they were first performed on the Athenian stage.
Author: Daphne Elizabeth O'Regan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0195070178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an intelligent and unusually thought-provoking reading of Aristophanes' Clouds. O'Regan focuses on logos, or the power of argument, and its effects, and on the self-awareness of the second Clouds as a comedy of logos directed toward an audience made resistant by devotion to the body. Within and without the play, logos meets defeat when confronted with human nature and desire. The argument conveys much insight into fifth-century thought and the play's workings, the more so because it balances rhetoric with comedy, and reminds the reader that this is a comic logos--explored in the comic mode, and connected with the intentions and vicissitudes of the first and second Clouds.
Author: Donald R. Morrison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 0521833426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays from a diverse group of experts providing a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher.
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-04-05
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 052117256X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis translation of one of Aristophanes' most famous plays includes a synopsis of the play, a time line to set the play in its historical context, and running commentary alongside the translation.
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-05-28
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Clouds is a Greek comedy play written by the playwright Aristophanes. A lampooning of intellectual fashions in classical Athens, it can be considered the world's first extant "comedy of ideas" and is considered by literary critics to be among the finest examples of the genre. The play also, however, remains notorious for its caricature of Socrates and is mentioned in Plato's Apology as a contributor to the philosopher's trial and execution.
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher:
Published: 1915
Total Pages: 362
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Aristophanes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-11-10
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0192695177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their brilliant combination of fantasy and satire, their constantly inventive manipulation of language, and their use of absurd characters and plots to expose his society's institutions and values to the bracing challenge of laughter. This vibrant collection of verse translations of Aristophanes' works combines historical accuracy with a sensitive attempt to capture the rich dramatic and literary qualities of Aristophanic comedy. The volume presents Clouds, with its famous caricature of the philosopher Socrates; Women at the Thesmophoria (or Thesmophoriazusae), a work which mixes elaborate parody of tragedy with a great deal of transvestite burlesque; and Frogs, in which the dead tragedians Aeschylus and Euripides engage in a vituperative contest of 'literary criticism' of each other's plays. Featuring expansive introductions to each play and detailed explanatory notes, the volume also includes an illuminating appendix, which provides information and selected fragments from the lost plays of Aristophanes.