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Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata
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Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata (Meridian Classics) Paperback - 1984

by Aristophanes

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The acknowledged master of Greek comedy, Aristophanes brilliantly combines serious political satire with bawdiness, pyrotechnical bombast with delicate lyrics. This volumes features his four most celebrated masterpieces: THE CLOUDS, THE BIRDS, LYSISTRATA, and THE FROGS. Three of the leading translators of the 20th century--William Arrowsmith, Richmond Lattimore, and Douglas Parker--have created versions of the comedies that are at once contemporary, historically accurate, and funny. Also included are introductions to each play that describe the historical and literary background of the work.

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  • Title Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata (Meridian Classics)
  • Author Aristophanes
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition UsedGood
  • Pages 624
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Adult Hc/Tr, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1984-11-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4WILKM00KHIF
  • ISBN 9780452007178 / 0452007178
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 1.5 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 3.81 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
  • Library of Congress subjects Comedies, Aristophanes
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 84061181
  • Dewey Decimal Code 882.01

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Summary

In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war. 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.


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From the publisher

Aristophanes was born, probably in Athens, c. 449 BC and died between 386 and 380 BC. Little is known about his life, but there is a portrait of him in Plato's Symposium. He was twice threatened with prosecution in the 420s for his outspoken attacks on the prominent politician Cleon, but in 405 he was publicly honored and crowned for promoting Athenian civic unity in The Frogs. Aristophanes had his first comedy produced when he was about twenty-one, and wrote forty plays in all. The eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes are published in the Penguin Classics series as The Birds and Other Plays, Lysistrata and Other Plays, and The Wasps/The Poet and the Women/The Frogs.

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The original version of The Clouds was presented in March, 423 B.C at the Great Dionysia where it disappointed Aristophanes' hopes by being placed third.

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Aristophanes was born, probably in Athens, c. 449 BC and died between 386 and 380 BC. Little is known about his life, but there is a portrait of him in Plato's Symposium. He was twice threatened with prosecution in the 420s for his outspoken attacks on the prominent politician Cleon, but in 405 he was publicly honored and crowned for promoting Athenian civic unity in The Frogs. Aristophanes had his first comedy produced when he was about twenty-one, and wrote forty plays in all. The eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes are published in the Penguin Classics series as The Birds and Other Plays, Lysistrata and Other Plays, and The Wasps/The Poet and the Women/The Frogs.

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