The Birds And Other Plays Aristophanes Penguin Classics Αγγλικά Βιβλία Language Linguistics Teaching

Offering A Window Into The World Of Ordinary Athenians Aristophanes\ Birds And Other Plays Is Timeless Set Comedies Combining Witty Satire Raucous Slapstick To Wonderful Effect This Penguin Classics Edition Translated From Greek By David Barrett Alan H Sommerstein In Volume All Contain Trademark Bawdy Comedy Dazzling Verbal Agility Two Cunning Persuade Build Utopian City \ Much Cuckoo Clouds\ Sky Blockading Olympian Gods Installing Themselves As New Deities Knights Venomous On Cleon Prominent Athenian Demagogue Who Vies With Humble Sausage-Seller For Approval People While Assembly-Women Deals Battle Sexes Women Athens Infiltrate All-Male Assembly Disguise Lengthy Conflict Sparta Subject Peace Inspired Hope Settlement 421 Bc Wealth Reflects Economic Catastrophe That Hit After War These Lively Translations Capture Full Humour Introduction Examines Life Times Poetry His Works Also Includes An Introductory Note Each Play Aristophanes (C 445-386 Bc) Was Probably Born Little Known About But There Portrait Him Plato\ S Symposium He Twice Threatened Prosecution 420S Outspoken Attacks Politician 405 Publicly Honoured Crowned Promoting Civic Unity Frogs Had First Produced When Twenty-One Wrote Forty Eleven Surviving Are Published Series Lysistrata Wasps If You Enjoyed Might Like Available Σελίδες: 336 Διαστάσεις: 13X13Cm