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This is a new edition, the first for thirty years, with introduction and commentary, of the Greek text of one of only eleven preserved plays of Aristophanes, the greatest master of the Athenian comic theatre. The commentary focuses on the realities of day-to-day life in the ancient world and includes an examination of the practical problems of staging.

This new abridged edition of Aristophanes' Frogs provides the students with the text of the play and includes a detailed commentary and full introduction. Sir Kenneth Dover has now abridged the acclaimed edition which he first produced in 1993 and added a vocabulary which eliminates the need for recourse to a lexicon. The result is an edition which fits much more closely the needs of students.

This line-for-line translation of Aritophanes' famous comedy features an introduction that explores Old Comedy and the place of "Clouds" and Aristophanic comedy within it. The text is accompanied by extensive footnotes.

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.

The plays in this volume all contain Aristophanes' trademark bawdy comedy and dazzling verbal agility. In THE BIRDS, two frustrated Athenians join the birds to build the utopian city of 'Much Cuckoo in the Clouds'. THE KNIGHTS is a venomous satire on Cleon, a prominent Athenian demagogue, while THE ASSEMBLY WOMEN deals with the battle of the sexes as the women of Athens infiltrate the all-male Assembly in disguise. The lengthy conflict with Sparta is the subject of PEACE, inspired by the hope of a settlement in 421 BC, and WEALTH reflects on the economic catastrophe that hit Athens after the war.

Writing at a time when Athens was undergoing a crisis in its social attitudes, Aristophanes was an eloquent opponent of the demagogue and the sophist. This collection includes Lysistrata, the hilariously bawdy anti-war fantasy; The Acharnians, a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta; and The Clouds, a satire on contemporary philosophy.

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Dionysos dringt in die Unterwelt vor, um Euripides wieder ins Diesseits zu führen. Dort wird er zum Schiedsrichter in einem Wettstreit zwischen dem besagten Dichter und Aischylos, an dessen Ende Aischylos zum Sieger gekürt wird und aus dem Jenseits zurückkehrt.Zwei Handlungsstränge werden miteinander verknüpft: Die Fahrt des Dionysos in die Unterwelt als Abenteuergeschichte nach dem Muster des Herakles kann jedoch nicht zur Identifikation des Helden dienen, da die Grenzüberschreitung keine Herausforderung darstellt. Der Held wird "im Off" identifiziert. Der zweite Handlungsstrang ist der Wettstreit der Dichter, der weder durch philologische noch naturwissenschaftliche Kriterien entschieden werden kann. Erst das Eingreifen Plutons führt die Handlungsstränge zusammen und lässt Aischylos obsiegen, da er momentan die bessere Wahl darstellt. Aristophanes (zwischen 450 v. Chr. und 444 v. Chr. in Athen; † um 380 v. Chr.) war ein griechischer Komödiendichter.

Die V├╢gel ist eine Kom├╢die von Aristophanes. In dem B├╝hnenst├╝ck, erstmals aufgef├╝hrt im Jahr 414 v. Chr., beschreibt der antike Dichter die Machtergreifung der V├╢gel mithilfe zweier Athener Exilanten, Peisthetairos und Euelpides. Das Theaterst├╝ck besteht aus f├╝nf Akten. Aristophanes (zwischen 450 v. Chr. und 444 v. Chr. in Athen; ΓÇá um 380 v. Chr.) war ein griechischer Kom├╢diendichter.

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The book gathers the best of a thousand years of philosophy, history and literature, in a compilation of writing spanning from 800 BC to 200 AD. With selections from the five major schools of Greek thought-the Platonists, the Aristotelians, the Stoics, the Epicureans, and the Skeptics-it offers guidance for a life well lived.

Aristophanes (c. 450-c. 386 BCE) has been admired since antiquity for his wit, fantasy, language, and satire. In Acharnians a small landowner, tired of the Peloponnesian War, magically arranges a personal peace treaty; and Knights, perhaps the most biting satire of a political figure (Cleon) ever written.

Aristophanes (c. 450-c. 386 BCE) has been admired since antiquity for his wit, fantasy, language, and satire. Traditional Aeschylus and modern Euripides compete in Frogs. In Assemblywomen, Athenian women plot against male misgovernance. The humor and morality of Wealth made it the most popular of Aristophanes's plays until the Renaissance.

Aristophanes (c. 450-c. 386 BCE) has been admired since antiquity for his wit, fantasy, language, and satire. Socrates's "Thinkery" is at the center of Clouds, which spoofs untraditional techniques for educating young men. Wasps satirizes Athenian enthusiasm for jury service. Peace is a rollicking attack on war-makers.

One of the funniest - and most biting -satiric accounts of literary pretensions ever. As pertinent now as for the audiences of fifth century B C. Q