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- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
29 July 2007
Summary
Aristophanes Unchained: Comic Masterpieces of Ancient Greece
The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes, combined slapstick, humour, and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations.
In The Frogs, written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a great debate to help him decide between the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus and the brilliant modernity o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140449693 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140449698 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Aristophanes, Shomit Dutta, David Barrett |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 29 July 2007 |
| Weight: | 215g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 18mm |
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Aristophanes
Aristophanes was born, probably in Athens, c. 449 BC and died between 386 and 380 BC. Little is known about his life, but there is a portrait of him in Plato’s Symposium. He was twice threatened with prosecution in the 420s for his outspoken attacks on the prominent politician Cleon, but in 405 he was publicly honored and crowned for promoting Athenian civic unity in The Frogs. Aristophanes had his first comedy produced when he was about twenty-one, and wrote forty plays in all. The eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes are published in the Penguin Classics series as The Birds and Other Plays, Lysistrata and Other Plays, and The Wasps/The Poet and the Women/The Frogs.
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