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Aristophanes Four Plays Clouds Birds Lysistrata Women Of The Assembly by Aristophanes
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Category: Poetry and Plays
Aristophanes - Frogs and Other Plays - A New Translation by Aristophanes; Stephen Halliwell (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Aristophanes 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 combinationof fantasy a ...Show more
Classical Comedy by Menander, Aristophanes, Aristophanes Aristophanes, Plautus, Terence
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Category: Classics
From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes' bold, imaginative "Birds", and Menander's "The Girl from Samos", which explores popular contem ...Show more
Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes
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Category: Poetry and Plays
Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' "The Frogs and Other Plays" offers a unique insight into one of the most turbulent periods in Ancient Greek history. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated by David Barrett with revisions, an i ...Show more
Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Three plays by the comedian of Ancient Greece Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta. In Lysistrata a band ...Show more
The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is a timeless set of comedies, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to wonderful effect. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Greek by David Barrett and Alan H. Sommerstein. The plays ...Show more
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