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Title: The Birds and Other Plays: The Knight, Peace, Wealth, the Birds, the Assemblywomen (Penguin Classics) by Aristophanes, Alan Sommerstein, David Barrett ISBN: 0-14-044951-5 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
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Summary: A Review on Aristophanes' Plays
Comment: Aristophanes is considered the finest comic playwrite of the Classical Era. This is certainly born out through the selection in this volume. Birds is a comedy about an Athenian who decides to incite the birds to take over the world and replace the classical deities as its rulers. Both Lysistrata and Assembly-Women are about what would happen if the women took over the government. In the former, the women of Greece band together in a sex-strike, to end the Pelopennesian Wars. In the later, the Athenian women use trickery to be elected the the leaders of the democracy, and they institute economic and sexual communism. In the last selection, Wealth, the deity of Wealth, Ploutos, is captured and made to distribute wealth only to the good. However, as Poverty points out, that might not be a good thing. These plays are full of topical comedy, but much of the humor still is funny 2400 years later. The translation is very uncensored, as Greek comedy itself was, so that very little is lost in metaphor. The imagery in some of them is highly amusing. Although this is a great example of the way life was in Classic Athens, these plays are not for the squeamish!!
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Title: Plays and Fragments (Penguin Classics) by Menander, Norma Miller ISBN: 0140445013 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Lysistrata & Other Plays: The Acharnians, the Clouds, Lysistrata (Penguin Classics) by Aristophanes, Alan H. Sommerstein ISBN: 0140448144 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women (The New Classical Canon) by Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson ISBN: 0415907446 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus, Aubrey De Selincourt, John Marincola ISBN: 0140449086 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: History of the Peloponnesian War (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides, Rex Warner ISBN: 0140440399 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1954 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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