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Aristophanes

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Description for Aristophanes Paperback. "Directness, vivid imagery, and rhetorical music prevail."-- Editor(s): Slavitt, David. Series: Penn Greek Drama Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 216 x 26. Weight in Grams: 466.

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.
Aristophanes wrote most of his comedic masterpieces during the Peloponnesian War, parodying the tumultuous politics and society of that time with trademark innuendoes and bawdy stagings and dialogue. In these plays, Aristophanes brings every rhetorical strategem into play to treat the reader to stories of one man's attempt to create a "war-free zone," the rescue of the imprisoned Peace ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Penn Greek Drama Series
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812216622
SKU
V9780812216622
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Ref
99-1

About David Aristophanes. Ed(S): Slavitt
About the Translators: Fred Beake was born in Cheshire in 1948, grew up in the rural West Riding, and has lived in Bath since 1972. He is the author of several books of original poetry and translations, including The Whiteness of Her Becoming, The Fisher Queen, and Places and Elegies. In addition to his work as a poet, he has ... Read more

Reviews for Aristophanes
"These three new volumes of plays constitute a boon for classicists and general readers alike. For the reader who comes to tragedy for the first time, these translations are eminently 'accessible,' and consummately American in tone and feeling. For the classicist, these versions constitute an ambitious reinterpretation of traditional masterpieces; after 2,500 years, the poetry of Euripides and Aeschylus has ... Read more

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