Aristophanes Aristophanes: 144 books

Aristophanes son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they are...

Reissue of Aristophanes' most famous plays in the Methuen Classical Greek Dramatists series Aristophanes was a unique writer for the comic stage as well as one of the most revealing about the society for which he wrote.

Aristophanes, son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion (Latin: Cydathenaeum),was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as...

THE KNIGHTS, dating to about 424 BC, is the fourth play written by Aristophanes.  A masterful Old Comedy satire, the play examines the social and political life of classical Athens during the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC). Aristophanes (c.446 BC - c.386 BC) was a comic playwright of...

Aristophanes son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they are...

Aristophanes son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they are...

Diese Ausgabe der Werke von Aristophanes wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Dieses eBook ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert. Aristophanes (zwischen 450 v. Chr. und 444 v. Chr./um 380 v. Chr.)...

Aristophanes: Die Wolken. Ein Lustspiel Aristophanes hielt die Wolken für sein gelungenstes Werk und war entsprechend enttäuscht als sie bei den Dionysien des Jahres 423 v. Chr. nur den dritten Platz belegten. Ein Spottstück auf das damals neumodische, vermeintliche Wissen derer, die »die schlechtere...

Aristophanes: Die Vögel. Ein Lustspiel Zwei weise Athener sind die Streitsucht in ihrer Stadt leid und wollen sich von einem Wiedehopf den Weg in die Emigration zu einem friedlichen Ort weisen lassen, doch keiner der Vorschläge findet ihr Gefallen. So entsteht die Idee eines Vogelstaates zwischen...

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...

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...

LYSISTRATA is a classic Old Comedy set during the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC).  Wearied by 20 years of war, Lysistrata persuades the women of Athens to withhold sexual favors from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing them to negotiate peace with Sparta. Aristophanes (c.446 BC...

THE WASPS, dating to 422 BC, lampoons the law courts and the demagogue Cleon of ancient Athens. Aristophanes (c.446 BC - c.386 BC) was a comic playwright of ancient Athens.  Eleven of his approximately forty plays survive, providing modern understanding of the Old Comedy genre.  Little is known of his personal life.

Along with Sophocles and Euripides, Aristophanes is considered one of the three great Greek playwrights. Only eleven of his nearly forty plays survive in their entirety to this day. "The Frogs and Other Plays" includes the titular play along "The Wasps" and "The Thesmophoriazusae." Produced the year...