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The Complete Plays - Aristophanes, Moses Hadas
The Complete Plays
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A poet who hated an age of decadence, armed conflict, and departure from tradition, Aristophanes' comic genius influenced the political and social order of his own fifth-century Athens. But as Moses Hadas writes in his introduction to this volume, 'His true claim upon our attention is as the most... show more
A poet who hated an age of decadence, armed conflict, and departure from tradition, Aristophanes' comic genius influenced the political and social order of his own fifth-century Athens. But as Moses Hadas writes in his introduction to this volume, 'His true claim upon our attention is as the most brilliant and artistic and thoughtful wit our world has known.' Includes The Acharnians, The Birds, The Clouds, Ecclesiazusae, The Frogs, The Knights, Lysistrata, Peace, Plutus, Thesmophoriazusae, and The Wasps.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN: 9780553213430 (0553213431)
ASIN: 553213431
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Pages no: 501
Edition language: English
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Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it
5.0 Complete Plays of Aristophanes (Bantam Classics)
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...
janeg
janeg rated it
He is a classist snob with a touch of xenophobia but his stuff is damn good.
Reading Adler's List
Reading Adler's List rated it
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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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