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Book The Thesmophoriazusae

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  • Author : Aristophanes
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-11-01
  • ISBN : 1625580932
  • Pages : 45 pages

Download or read book The Thesmophoriazusae written by Aristophanes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thesmophoriazusae was performed in Athens in 411 BCE, most likely at the City Dionysia, and is among the most brilliant of Aristophanes' eleven surviving comedies. It is the story of the crucial moment in a quarrel between the tragic playwright Euripides and Athens' women, who accuse him of slandering them in his plays and are holding a meeting at one of their secret festivals to set a penalty for his crimes. Thesmophoriazusae is a brilliantly inventive comedy, full of wild slapstick humour and devastating literary parody, and is a basic source for questions of gender and sexuality in late 5th-century Athens and for the popular reception of Euripidean tragedy.

Book The Thesmophoriazusae of Aristophanes

Download or read book The Thesmophoriazusae of Aristophanes written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lysistrata  The Thesmophoriazusae

Download or read book The Lysistrata The Thesmophoriazusae written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Thesmophoriazusae of Aristophanes Acted at Athens in the Year B C  410

Download or read book The Thesmophoriazusae of Aristophanes Acted at Athens in the Year B C 410 written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The comedies of Aristophanes  Lysistrata  The thesmophoriazusae

Download or read book The comedies of Aristophanes Lysistrata The thesmophoriazusae written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aristophanous K  m  idiai  VII  The Lysistrata  VIII  The Thesmophoriazusae

Download or read book Aristophanous K m idiai VII The Lysistrata VIII The Thesmophoriazusae written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aristophanis Comoediae  The Lysistrata  The Thesmophoriazusae

Download or read book Aristophanis Comoediae The Lysistrata The Thesmophoriazusae written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book

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  • Author : Aristophanes
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2004-09-30
  • ISBN : 0199265275
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book written by Aristophanes and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae is the story of a quarrel between the tragic playwright Euripides and Athens' women, who accuse him of slandering them in his plays. Austin and Olson offer a fresh text of the play; an extensive introduction; and a detailed commentary; most Greek cited in the introduction and commentary is translated, and much of the edition is accessible to non-specialists.

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 The Political Theory of Aristophanes

Download or read book The Political Theory of Aristophanes written by Jeremy J. Mhire and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the political dimensions of Aristophanes’ comic poetry. This original and wide-ranging collection of essays offers, for the first time, a comprehensive examination of the political dimensions of that madcap comic poet Aristophanes. Rejecting the claim that Aristophanes is little more than a mere comedian, the contributors to this fascinating volume demonstrate that Aristophanes deserves to be placed in the ranks of the greatest Greek political thinkers. As these essays reveal, all of Aristophanes’ plays treat issues of fundamental political importance, from war and peace, poverty and wealth, the relation between the sexes, demagoguery and democracy to the role of philosophy and poetry in political society. Accessible to students as well as scholars, The Political Theory of Aristophanes can be utilized easily in the classroom, but at the same time serve as a valuable source for those conducting more advanced research. Whether the field is political philosophy, classical studies, history, or literary criticism, this work will make it necessary to reconceptualize how we understand this great Athenian poet and force us to recognize the political ramifications and underpinnings of his uproarious comedies.

Book The Fragments of Attic Comedy

Download or read book The Fragments of Attic Comedy written by John M. Edmonds and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1957 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aristophanes  Thesmophoriazusae

Download or read book Aristophanes Thesmophoriazusae written by Ashley Clements and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes' comic masterpiece Thesmophoriazusae has long been recognized amongst the plays of Old Comedy for its deconstruction of tragic theatricality. This book reveals that this deconstruction is grounded not simply in Aristophanes' wider engagement with tragic realism. Rather, it demonstrates that from its outset Aristophanes' play draws upon Parmenides' philosophical revelations concerning reality and illusion, employing Eleatic strictures and imagery to philosophize the theatrical situation, criticize Aristophanes' poetic rival Euripides as promulgator of harmful deceptions, expose the dangerous complicity of Athenian theatre audiences in tragic illusion, and articulate political advice to an audience negotiating a period of political turmoil characterized by deception and uncertainty (the months before the oligarchic coup of 411 BC). The book thereby restores Thesmophoriazusae to its proper status as a philosophical comedy and reveals hitherto unrecognized evidence of Aristophanes' political use of Eleatic ideas during the late fifth century BC.

Book Aristophanes and Women  Routledge Revivals

Download or read book Aristophanes and Women Routledge Revivals written by Lauren K. Taaffe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes and Women, first published in 1993, investigates the workings of the great Athenian comedian’s ‘women plays’ in an attempt to discern why they were in fact probably quite funny to their original audiences. It is argued that modern students, scholars, and dramatists need to consider much more closely the conditions of the plays’ ancient productions when evaluating their ostensible themes. Three plays are focused upon: Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, and Ecclesiazusae. All seem to speak quite eloquently to contemporary concerns about women’s rights, the value of women’s work, and the relationships between women and war, literary representation and politics. On the one hand, Professor Taaffe tries to retrieve what an ancient Athenian audience may have l appreciated about these plays and what their central theses may have meant within that culture. On the other hand, Aristophanes is discussed from the perspective of a late twentieth-century, specifically female, reader.

Book Frogs and Other Plays

Download or read book Frogs and Other Plays written by Aristophanes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vibrant collection of verse translations of Aristophanes' works-featuring Clouds, Women at the Thesmophoria (or Thesmophoriazusae), and Frogs-combines historical accuracy with a sensitive attempt to capture the rich dramatic and literary qualities of Aristophanic comedy. Including expansive introductions to each play, as well as detailed explanatory notes and an illuminating appendix, this volume presents freshinterpretations of three key works from one of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition.

Book Aristophanous Thesmophoriazousai

Download or read book Aristophanous Thesmophoriazousai written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lament

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  • Author : Ann Suter
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2008-02-05
  • ISBN : 0199714274
  • Pages : 301 pages

Download or read book Lament written by Ann Suter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lament seems to have been universal in the ancient world. As such, it is an excellent touchstone for the comparative study of attitudes towards death and the afterlife, human relations to the divine, views of the cosmos, and the constitution of the fabric of society in different times and places. This collection of essays offers the first ever comparative approach to ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern traditions of lament. Beginning with the Sumerian and Hittite traditions, the volume moves on to examine Bronze Age iconographic representations of lamentation, Homeric lament, depictions of lament in Greek tragedy and parodic comedy, and finally lament in ancient Rome. The list of contributors includes such noted scholars as Richard Martin, Ian Rutherford, and Alison Keith. Lament comes at a time when the conclusions of the first wave of the study of lament-especially Greek lament-have received widespread acceptance, including the notions that lament is a female genre; that men risked feminization if they lamented; that there were efforts to control female lamentation; and that a lamenting woman was a powerful figure and a threat to the orderly functioning of the male public sphere. Lament revisits these issues by reexamining what kinds of functions the term lament can include, and by expanding the study of lament to other genres of literature, cultures, and periods in the ancient world. The studies included here reflect the variety of critical issues raised over the past 25 years, and as such, provide an overview of the history of critical thinking on the subject.