Search results for 'aristophanes'

ISBN: 9780856682629
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
In Peace, produced in 421 B.C., Aristophanes celebrates in anticipation the conclusion, after ten years, of the great war with Sparta. Peace, we are made to see, is within the grasp of the Greek peoples; let them make one final effort, and all ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780856686481
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
Aristophanes' Frogs was produced in 405 BC, shortly after the deaths of the two great veteran Athenian tragic dramatists Euripides and Sophocles; it was restaged a year later, a few weeks before starving Athens at last accepted defeat in the lo... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780715630457
Published by : Classical Press of Wales
Due to the scarcity of surviving texts by other poets, it is easy to forget that Aristophanes wrote for competition and that rivalry was an important component in the rhetoric of his comedies, especially Clouds and Knights . This important stud... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780856687396
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
This volume is the first edition with commentary since 1907 of AristophanesÆ last surviving play, in which, as so often before, an audacious and imaginative hero finds a miraculous remedy for the all-too-real ills of the contemporary worldùin t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780856687501
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
This volume completes the twelve-volume series The Comedies of Aristophanes , begun in 1980, and is comprised of comprehensive indexes to the preceding eleven volumes. The book is divided into three parts: I. Texts and Passages, II. Persons, and... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780856687518
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
This volume completes the twelve-volume series The Comedies of Aristophanes , begun in 1980, and is comprised of comprehensive indexes to the preceding eleven volumes. The book is divided into three parts: I. Texts and Passages, II. Persons, and... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780856687716
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: A & P CLASSICS TITLES
Alan Sommerstein joined the staff of the University of Nottingham in 1974 and remains there to this day. During this period he has produced a stream of distinguished books, editions and articles on many aspects of Greek drama and society. Among... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780856687723
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: A & P CLASSICS TITLES
Since the publication of the first edition of this book, in 2003, much important new literature has come out, requiring review. The works on drinking parties have focused more and more on Hellenistic and Roman banquets, while drawing parallels ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780856687082
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
^Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a
typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and
farce, the earliest surviving work in the western Utopian
tradition, and the... .... Learn More