The Complete Aristophanes Collection
by:
Aristophanes (author)
Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history’s greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents.Aristophanes was the first known comic playwright of ancient...
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Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history’s greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents.Aristophanes was the first known comic playwright of ancient Athens. Scholars believe that Aristophanes wrote forty plays, of which eleven have survived. This collection includes the following:SURVIVING PLAYS:The AcharniansThe KnightsThe CloudsThe WaspsPeaceThe BirdsLysistrataThe ThesmophoriazusaeThe FrogsThe EcclesiazusaePlutus
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Format: Kindle Edition
ISBN:
9781531285227
ASIN: B01HHA5JBA
Publish date: 2016-06-23
Publisher: Karpathos Collections
Pages no: 709
Edition language: English
Aristophanes is the great comic playwright of Ancient Greece, and set the standard and form of comedy in the Western World. Moreover, his plays are often cited in discussions of what ordinary life was like in the city of Athens in the times of Socrates. No less a figure than Plato accused Aristophan...
He is a classist snob with a touch of xenophobia but his stuff is damn good.
What I appreciated most about this version of Aristophanes was the effort gone into the translation by Paul Roche. The Introduction briefly lays out Roche's difficulties in maintaining the subtilties from a polysyllabic language into one seldomly so. His attempt to faithfully translate the Greek r...
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