Books related to Aristophanes
  • Aristophanes I: Clouds, Wasps, Birds by Aristophanes
    Description : Originally adapted for the stage, Peter Meineck's revised translations achieve a level of fidelity appropriate for classroom use while managing to preserve the wit and energy that led The New Yorker to judge his Clouds "The best Greek drama we've ever seen anywhere." and The Times Literary Supplemen...more..
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  • Aristophanes Frogs (Focus Classical Library) by Aristophanes
    Description : Focus Classical Library's Aristophanes Frogs is an English translation of Aristophanes popular Greek comedy in which the mythological figure of Dionysus seeks to bring the great dramatist Euripides from Hades, encountering another great Classical playwright, Aeschylus. Includes background material o...more..
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  • Aristophanes: Clouds. Wasps. Peace (Loeb Classical Library No. 488) by Aristophanes
    Description : Aristophanes of Athens (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...more..
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  • Aristophanes: Clouds (Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama) by John Claughton
    Description : Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, including suggestions for discussion and analysis. In addition, numerous practical questions st...more..
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  • Aristophanes: Frogs. Assemblywomen. Wealth. (Loeb Classical Library No. 180) by Aristophanes
    Description : Aristophanes, 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. This is the fourth and final volume in the...more..
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  • Aristophanes and Athens: An Introduction to the Plays by Douglas M. MacDowell
    Description : Aristophanes' comedies are famous for their comic characters and earthy humor. But they are also highly topical, with many contemporary political allusions easily missed today. This book provides students with a long needed accessible and essential introductory guide to the plays, focusing particula...more..
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  • Aristophanes, 2: Wasps, Lysistrata, Frogs, The Sexual Congress (Penn Greek Drama Series) (v. 2) by R. H. Dillard
    Description : The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander....more..
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  • Aristophanes' Clouds (Bryn Mawr Greek Commentaries) by Laura S. Barnard
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  • Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's "Euthyphro," "Apology of Socrates," "Crito," and Aristophanes' "Clouds" by Plato
    Description : Widely adopted for classroom use, this book offers translations of four major works of ancient Greek literature which treat the life and thought of Socrates, focusing particularly on his trial and defense (three dialogues by Plato: Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, and Crito...more..
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  • Aristophanes, V, Fragments (Loeb Classical Library No. 502) by Aristophanes
    Description : The eleven plays by Aristophanes that have come down to us intact brilliantly illuminate the eventful period spanned by his forty-year career, beginning with the first production in 427 BCE. But the Athenians knew much more of his work: over forty plays by Aristophanes w...more..
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