Aristophanes
Author
Publisher
Liveright
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Capturing 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
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Deutsch
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Diese Ausgabe der Werke von Aristophanes wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Dieses eBook ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert.
Aristophanes (zwischen 450 v. Chr. und 444 v. Chr./um 380 v. Chr.) war ein griechischer Komödiendichter. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Vertreter der griechischen Komödie, insbesondere der Alten Komödie, und des...
3) Lisístrata
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Series
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Español
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Aristófanes (445-385 a. C.) es el máximo representante de la comedia antigua. Sus once obras conservadas son el testimonio más completo de un género tan importante en la Atenas clásica como la tragedia. Son vehículos de una imaginación desbordante en los que tiene cabida la sátira, la crítica política y social, la burla despiadada y los chistes groseros.
Lisístrata se estrenó en el 411 a. C., en un momento crítico para Atenas, cada vez...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Birds rule the sky—and man—in this entertaining work by the Ancient Greek playwright known for Lysistrata and The Clouds.
This award-winning comedy—first performed in Greece in 414 BC—remains a delightful read even after two millennia. As the birds of Athens express their frustration about sharing a realm with humans, they hatch a plan to build their own empire in the sky: Cloud-cuckoo-land....
This award-winning comedy—first performed in Greece in 414 BC—remains a delightful read even after two millennia. As the birds of Athens express their frustration about sharing a realm with humans, they hatch a plan to build their own empire in the sky: Cloud-cuckoo-land....
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Considered the Greek playwright’s greatest work: “A bawdy antiwar comedy [about] one woman’s extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War” (Classical Literature).
First presented in 411 BC, Lysistrata is one of the great works from the classical age of drama. It is the third and concluding play in Aristophanes’s War and Peace series and portrays a humorous battle of the sexes....
First presented in 411 BC, Lysistrata is one of the great works from the classical age of drama. It is the third and concluding play in Aristophanes’s War and Peace series and portrays a humorous battle of the sexes....