Three Plays By Aristophanes

Author : Jeffrey Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135173753

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Three Plays by Aristophanes by Jeffrey Henderson Pdf

These three plays by the great comic playwright Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BCE), the well-known Lysistrata, and the less familiar Women at the Thesmophoria and Assemblywomen, are the earliest surviving portrayals of contemporary women in the European literary tradition. These plays provide a unique glimpse of women not only in their familiar domestic roles but also in relation to household and city, religion and government, war and peace, theater and festival, and, of course, to men. This freshly revised edition presents, for the first time in a single volume, all three plays in faithful modern translations that preserve intact Aristophanes’ blunt and often obscene language, sparkling satire, political provocation, and beguiling fantasy. Alongside the translations are ample introductions and notes covering the politically engaged genre of Aristophanic comedy in general and issues of sex and gender in particular, which have been fully updated since the first edition in light of recent scholarship. An appendix contains fragments of lost plays of Aristophanes that also featured women, and an up-to-date bibliography provides guidance for further exploration. In addition to their timeless humor and biting satire, the plays are unique and invaluable documents in the history of western sexuality and gender, and they offer strikingly prescient speculations about the social and political future of the female sex.

Author : Jeffrey Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000577532

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Three More Plays by Aristophanes by Jeffrey Henderson Pdf

This volume provides modern, uncensored translations of Aristophanes’ Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps. These plays, originally a series, are the world’s earliest political satires, and are made available here for the first time in one volume, augmented by full introductions and notes. In these three works, Aristophanes launched satirical attacks on Cleon, the world’s first demagogue, and explored the vulnerability of democracy to populist manipulation and disinformation. Henderson's fresh translations and exploration of the themes within them enable readers to explore the perils facing democracy in its first century which are still with us today. The Introduction offers the reader background on Aristophanes' life, Athenian democracy, classical drama, as well as on political comedy, while introductions to each individual play provide the reader with context. An appendix also collects selected fragments from Aristophanes' lost political plays. Three More Plays by Aristophanes offers an invaluable collection of these works for students and faculty working on classical studies, theatre and theatre history, and drama. The clear translations and contextualizing introductions and notes also make these plays accessible to students of government, law, and political science, and to the general reader interested in any of these subjects.

Author : Jeffrey Henderson,Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367747626

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Three More Plays by Aristophanes by Jeffrey Henderson,Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

This volume provides modern, uncensored translations of Aristophanes' Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps. These translations allow readers to explore the perils facing early democracy, still relevant today. Suitable for students of and those interested in classical studies, drama, and political science.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141907017

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Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes Pdf

The Acharnians/The Clouds/Lysistrata 'We women have the salvation of Greece in our hands' Writing at a time of political and social crisis in Athens, the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes was an eloquent, yet bawdy, challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. In Lysistrata and The Acharnians, two pleas for an end to the long war between Athens and Sparta, a band of women on a sex strike and a lone peasant respectively defeat the political establishment. The darker comedy of The Clouds satirizes Athenian philosophers, Socrates in particular, and reflects the uncertainties of a generation in which all traditional religious and ethical beliefs were being challenged. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Alan H. Sommerstein

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141935775

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Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes Pdf

The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In The Frogs, written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a great debate to help him decide between the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus and the brilliant modernity of Euripides. The clash of generations and values is also the object of Aristophanes’ satire in The Wasps, in which an old-fashioned father and his loose-living son come to blows and end up in court. And in The Poet and the Women, Euripides, accused of misogyny, persuades a relative to infiltrate an all-women festival to find out whether revenge is being plotted against him.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0674995872

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Aristophanes: Birds. Lysistrata. Women at the Thesmophoria by Aristophanes Pdf

Aristophanes (ca. 446-386 BCE), one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and political life of Athens at its height. In this third volume of a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson presents a freshly edited Greek text and a lively, unexpurgated translation of three plays with full explanatory notes. In Birds Aristophanes turns from the pointed political satire characteristic of earlier plays to a fantasy that soars literally into the air in search of a carefree world. Here the enterprising protagonists create a utopian counter-Athens, called Cloudcuckooland, ruled by birds. Lysistrata blends boisterous comedy and an earnest call for peace. Lysistrata, our first comic heroine, organizes a panhellenic conjugal strike of young wives until their husbands end the war between Athens and Sparta. Athenian women again take center stage in Women at the Thesmophoria, this time to punish Euripides for portraying them as wicked. Parody of Euripides' plots enlivens this witty confrontation of the sexes.

Author : Lauren K. Taaffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317700159

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Aristophanes and Women (Routledge Revivals) by Lauren K. Taaffe Pdf

Aristophanes and Women, first published in 1993, investigates the workings of the great Athenian comedian’s ‘women plays’ in an attempt to discern why they were in fact probably quite funny to their original audiences. It is argued that modern students, scholars, and dramatists need to consider much more closely the conditions of the plays’ ancient productions when evaluating their ostensible themes. Three plays are focused upon: Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, and Ecclesiazusae. All seem to speak quite eloquently to contemporary concerns about women’s rights, the value of women’s work, and the relationships between women and war, literary representation and politics. On the one hand, Professor Taaffe tries to retrieve what an ancient Athenian audience may have l appreciated about these plays and what their central theses may have meant within that culture. On the other hand, Aristophanes is discussed from the perspective of a late twentieth-century, specifically female, reader.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0472061534

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Three Comedies by Aristophanes Pdf

A collection of Aristophanes' famous comedy plays. Each play includes notes and an introduction.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : 1420947605

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The Complete Plays by Aristophanes Pdf

This comprehensive compilation of Aristophanes' texts, "The Complete Plays of Aristophanes" contains eleven unique stories all penned by the famously witty Greek playwright. His works are also important because they are some of the last remaining forms of Old Comedy in existence. The plays are filled with all kinds of satire, ranging from politics and sex to the humorous portrayals of popular Greek figures. "The Clouds" depicts the philosopher Socrates as a sneaky old man with a penchant for stirring up discontent and mischief. In "Lysistrata," the women of Greece refuse to give their husbands sex unless they re-think their stance in the Peloponnesian War. "The Frogs" shows that the Greek god Dionysus bumbling around the Underworld because he misses the older and more tragic plays over the newer tongue-in-cheek ones. Aristophanes appreciated the more tragic plays, but he refused to let himself take them too seriously. He believed that the audiences needed something more in their lives than solemn tales about the Greek gods, so he made them laugh with his sarcastic and sardonic humor. He was also influential in that he revised the role of the classic Greek chorus; most choruses were only present in the tragedies; however, he doubled the number of chorus singers and made them the voice of humorous reason amidst the comical confusion. As such, Aristophanes is remembered and praised by critics and audiences alike.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4475932

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The Acharnians and Three Other Plays of Aristophanes by Aristophanes Pdf

Author : Aristophane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:493879770

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Aristophanes by Aristophane Pdf

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Greek drama (Comedy)
ISBN : 0192824090

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Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes Pdf

This vibrant collection of verse translations of Aristophanes' works-featuring Clouds, Women at the Thesmophoria (or Thesmophoriazusae), and Frogs-combines historical accuracy with a sensitive attempt to capture the rich dramatic and literary qualities of Aristophanic comedy. Including expansive introductions to each play, as well as detailed explanatory notes and an illuminating appendix, this volume presents freshinterpretations of three key works from one of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015002578683

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The Acharniams and Three Other Plays of Aristophanes by Aristophanes Pdf

Author : Aristophanes,John P Maine
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1343366321

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The Acharnians, and Three Other Plays of Aristophanes by Aristophanes,John P Maine Pdf

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Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Drama
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030041403637

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The Acharnians by Aristophanes Pdf