Aristophanes: 144 books

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...

Chremylus, a poor but just man, accompanied by his body-servant Cario—the redeeming feature, by the by, of an otherwise dull play, the original type of the comic valet of the stage of all subsequent periods—consults the Delphic Oracle concerning his son, whether he ought not to be instructed...

The Birds is a comedy by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed in 414 BC at the City Dionysia where it won second prize. It has been acclaimed by modern critics as a perfectly realized fantasy remarkable for its mimicry of birds and for the gaiety of its songs. Unlike the author's...

There are a lot of things about us women That sadden me, considering how men See us as rascals. —Lysistrata   As indeed we are! —Calonice     Aristophanes' Lysistrata is the timeless comic account of one woman's...