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Book Aristophanes  Women in Congress

Download or read book Aristophanes Women in Congress written by Jules Tasca and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1986 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Congresswomen

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  • Author : Aristophanes
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book The Congresswomen written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women in Congress  ecclesiazusae

Download or read book Women in Congress ecclesiazusae written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Congresswomen

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  • Author : Aristophanes
  • Publisher : Signet
  • Release : 1973-04-17
  • ISBN : 9780451612113
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Congresswomen written by Aristophanes and published by Signet. This book was released on 1973-04-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Congress of Women

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  • Author : Mary Kavanaugh Oldham Eagle
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1894
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book The Congress of Women written by Mary Kavanaugh Oldham Eagle and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Congress of Women Held in the Woman s Building

Download or read book The Congress of Women Held in the Woman s Building written by Mary Kavanaugh Oldham Eagle and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aristophanes in Britain

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  • Author : Peter Swallow
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2023-09-11
  • ISBN : 019286856X
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Aristophanes in Britain written by Peter Swallow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively and wide-ranging study, Peter Swallow explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain throughout the long-nineteenth century, setting it in the broader context of Victorian Classicism and, more specifically, the period's reception of Greek tragedy. Swallow shows the surprising extent to which Aristophanes was repurposed across an array of mediums in Victorian Britain, and demonstrates that Aristophanic reception in the period was always a process of speaking to contemporary issues--making Old Comedy new. The book examines two strands of Aristophanic reception: the political and the aesthetic. From the start of the long-nineteenth century, the British reception of Aristophanes tied into contemporary political debate, as historians, translators and commentators, and even the burlesque writer J.R. Planché activated Aristophanes in support of their own political positions. But each writer's conceptualisation of Aristophanes was as different as their political outlooks. While many writers who appropriated Aristophanes for their cause were Tories, a notable outlier is Percy Shelley, whose Aristophanic drama Swellfoot the Tyrant activated Old Comedy to argue for democratic republicanism--what we would now call a left-wing political revolution. The second strand of Aristophanic reception, which developed from around the middle of the nineteenth century, actively depoliticised Old Comedy and instead received it through an aesthetic lens. The aesthetics of Aristophanes--with an emphasis on the beautiful and the archaeological--also lay behind school and university productions of Old Comedy during this period. These strands of nineteenth-century Aristophanic reception find synthesis towards the book's conclusion. Edwardian women's receptions of Aristophanes show how activists used his plays to argue for equal educational opportunities and the right to vote. In the final chapter, Gilbert Murray and George Bernard Shaw's receptions reveal both the political and artistic potential of Aristophanes.

Book Concordia Discors

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  • Author : Andrew Scholtz
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Concordia Discors written by Andrew Scholtz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing to a friend, Horace describes the man as fascinated by "the discordant harmony of the cosmos, its purpose and power." Andrew Scholtz takes this notion of "discordant harmony" and argues for it as an aesthetic principle where classical Athenian literature addresses politics in the idiom of sexual desire. His approach is an untried one for this kind of topic. Drawing on theorists of the sociality of language, Scholtz shows how eros, consuming, destabilizing desire, became a vehicle for exploring and exploiting dissonance within the songs Athenians sang about themselves. Thus he shows how societal tension and instability could register as an ideologically charged polyphony in works like the Periclean Funeral Oration, Aristophanes' Knights, and Xenophon's Symposium.

Book The Ecclesiazusae

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  • Author : Aristophanes
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-11-01
  • ISBN : 1625580738
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book The Ecclesiazusae written by Aristophanes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes' "Esslesiazusae", written in the early 4th Century BC, marks a crossroads in his career. Post-dating the Peloponnesian War, it reflects a late change in his writing and a much changed society. This edition includes the complete text.

Book Politics and Persuasion in Aristophanes  Ecclesiazusae

Download or read book Politics and Persuasion in Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae written by K.S. Rothwell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study shows that the Ecclesiazusae is an affirmation of the importance of persuasion in the fourth- century democracy. Praxagora, the attractive and articulate female protagonist, virtually personifies peitho, the realm of both political persuasion and erotic seduction. The ability of peitho to address both public and private motivations makes it the perfect instrument to resolve the tension in the fourth century between selfishness and civic participation. This is, after all, the central issue in the later episodes of the play.

Book Lysistrata

Download or read book Lysistrata written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aristophanes  Wasps

Download or read book Aristophanes Wasps written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sacred Mushrooms

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  • Author : Carl A. P. Ruck
  • Publisher : Ronin Publishing
  • Release : 2016-01-18
  • ISBN : 1579510418
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Sacred Mushrooms written by Carl A. P. Ruck and published by Ronin Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ancient world, men and women joined cults known as Mysteries to unite with the deities of the otherworld and achieve eternal life. The most important of the Mysteries existed for two millennia at the village of Eleusis. Its deities were Demeter and Persephone, interchangeable in their roles as mother and daughter. The initiations and other rituals of this goddess-based cult were a profound secret: divulging information was punishable by death. For centuries, scholars have probed the secrets of the Eleusinian Mysteries and kykeon, its sacramental Eucharist — a sacred drink containing psychoactive chemicals similar to those in LSD. Their discoveries have been buried in the arcane language of alchemy, the occult sciences, and secret societies. Here, in prose accessible to all readers, Carl Ruck unravels the Mysteries, revealing the awesome powers of the goddesses, as well as the pagan underpinnings of Western culture.

Book The Woman Patriot

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  • Author : Minnie Bronson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 652 pages

Download or read book The Woman Patriot written by Minnie Bronson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Classical Myth on Screen

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  • Author : M. Cyrino
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2015-04-08
  • ISBN : 1137486031
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Classical Myth on Screen written by M. Cyrino and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how screen texts embrace, refute, and reinvent the cultural heritage of antiquity, this volume looks at specific story-patterns and archetypes from Greco-Roman culture. The contributors offer a variety of perspectives, highlighting key cultural relay points at which a myth is received and reformulated for a particular audience.

Book Political Dissent in Democratic Athens

Download or read book Political Dissent in Democratic Athens written by Josiah Ober and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and why did the Western tradition of political theorizing arise in Athens during the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C.? By interweaving intellectual history with political philosophy and literary analysis, Josiah Ober argues that the tradition originated in a high-stakes debate about democracy. Since elite Greek intellectuals tended to assume that ordinary men were incapable of ruling themselves, the longevity and resilience of Athenian popular rule presented a problem: how to explain the apparent success of a regime "irrationally" based on the inherent wisdom and practical efficacy of decisions made by non-elite citizens? The problem became acute after two oligarchic coups d' tat in the late fifth century B.C. The generosity and statesmanship that democrats showed after regaining political power contrasted starkly with the oligarchs' violence and corruption. Since it was no longer self-evident that "better men" meant "better government," critics of democracy sought new arguments to explain the relationship among politics, ethics, and morality. Ober offers fresh readings of the political works of Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle, among others, by placing them in the context of a competitive community of dissident writers. These thinkers struggled against both democratic ideology and intellectual rivals to articulate the best and most influential criticism of popular rule. The competitive Athenian environment stimulated a century of brilliant literary and conceptual innovation. Through Ober's re-creation of an ancient intellectual milieu, early Western political thought emerges not just as a "footnote to Plato," but as a dissident commentary on the first Western democracy.