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Aristophanes: Frogs (Aristophanes) (Aristophanes)

1 review
W. Stanford

Duckworth Publishers, 2002

Aristophanes's farcical attempt at dramatic criticism
On the one hand Aristophanes's comedy "The Frogs" is obviously a farce, but it is of more interest because it presents the earliest known example of dramatic criticism. Presented in 405 B.C., the play tells of how Dionysus, the god of drama, had to go to Hades to fetch back Euripides, who died the previous year, because Athens no longer had any great tragic poets left. The first part of the ...

Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata (Meridian classics)

7 reviews
Aristophanes

Plume, 1994

Great Ancient Greek Political Parodies
I should first point out that I read a different edition of this book, and the one that I had had only two plays - The Birds and The Frogs. I will review only these two. Aristophanes has a "no holds barred" type of approach to controversial political decisions and actions. The Birds is a comedy that ridicules the disastrous Greek expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C. Arisotophanes is a wonderful ...

Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito and Aristophanes' Clouds

6 reviews
Thomas G. West, Grace Starry West

Cornell University Press, 1998

A Great Help for Teachers
This is an outstanding translation of these Greek texts. These are texts that many of us regularly teach in introductory classes, and it is a great help to have such a reliable translation: the translation is clear and accessible, but maintains an unusually strict adherence to the form of the original Greek. This makes it useful for advanced study as well. The running footnotes to the text are ...

Lysistrata (Dover Thrift Editions)

24 reviews
Aristophanes

Dover Publications, 1994

Excellent
This was exactly what I was hoping for, a simple copy of Lysistrata's text. No extra frills, no bells and whistles. Just perfect.

Aristophanes, V, Fragments (Loeb Classical Library No. 502)
Aristophanes

Loeb Classical Library, 2008

The eleven plays by Aristophanes that have come down to us intact brilliantly illuminate the eventful period spanned by his forty-year career, beginning with the first production in 427 BCE . But the Athenians knew much more of his work: over forty plays by Aristophanes were read in antiquity, of which nearly a thousand fragments survive. These provide a fuller picture of the poet's ever astonishing comic vitality and a wealth of information ...

Aristophanes : Clouds (Translated With Notes and Introduction) (Focus Classical Library)

4 reviews
Aristophanes

Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company, 1993

Don't Like Greek Stuff? Read this anyway--you might like it!
I'm in a humanities program at the University of Vermont, and this book was like watching "Roseanne" after a marathon of "The McGlocklin Group" (or however one spells that). It's not humoruous in the way that many fine Shakespere funny--Aristoph. actually made me laugh out loud! Read this when you're in the mood for something witty, but not too pretentious.

The Trials of Socrates: Six Classic Texts

1 review

Hackett Publishing Company, 2002

The Death Of Socrates
This is an excellent idea--collect many of the key biographical works on the death (and life, to some extent) of Socrates in one volume. In one place you get EUTHYPHRO, APOLOGY, CRITO, PHAEDO (the death scene) as well as Aristophones' CLOUDS and Xenophon's SOCRATES' DEFENSE TO THE JURY. I've been rereading the works of Plato after a hiatus of some years. Hackett's editions appear to be the ...

Frogs and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)

2 reviews
Aristophanes

Penguin Classics, 2007

Hilarious collection of plays
Comedy is notoriously difficult to translate--not only do some cultures have entirely different senses of humor, the word-play and deft cultural allusions that make good comedy are often untranslatable. Against these odds, translator David Barrett has successfully brought Aristophanes into modern English with all his wit, sarcasm, and sly digs at well-known Greeks. The plays collected ...

Aristophanes: The Complete Plays

4 reviews
Aristophanes

NAL Trade, 2005

Ribald and Raucous
Aristophanes was a ribald playwright whose raucous plays were brilliantly brought to life by Fred Beake, David Slavitt, Palmer Bovie, and Jack Flavin. The first two of the four plays in Aristophanes, 1, The Acharnians and Peace were written during the Peloponnesian War between Athens, Sparta, and their allies. It was a terrible war consuming all of Greece, and Aristophanes was one of the first ...

Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)

4 reviews
Aristophanes

Penguin Classics, 2003

the father of western comedy...
Brilliantly written and translated (quite a feat considering the many word-plays in ancient Greek...), this book (or any of Arsitophanes' plays for that matter) is a 'must read' for the humourist and the classisist combined. When the King of Syracuse asked Plato what he should read to understand how the average Athenian thought, he was instructed to read Aristophanes. You will be fascinated to ...

Aristophanes: Frogs. Assemblywomen. Wealth. (Loeb Classical Library No. 180)

3 reviews
Aristophanes

Loeb Classical Library, 2002

THE modern Aristophanes translation
Professor Henderson's new translations of Aristophanes are uncensored, readable, fresh, and ultimately extremely enjoyable. He captures how Aristophanes probably would write if he lived today, with frank yet poetic language that brings these comedic gems to light. I have heard Professor Henderson's translation of Women at the Thesmophoria read aloud; the only thing funnier--and raunchier--I ...

Complete Plays of Aristophanes (Bantam Classics)

6 reviews
Aristophanes

Bantam Classics, 1984

Too Much Liberty in Paraphrasing
I agree with the previous review on "Baudlerizing". Not only is the translation edited for sexual content but translating greek currencies (likely drachmae) into dollars, translating references to women's robes into "silk" -- probably unknown in ancient Greece, etc., makes this book less useful for people like myself who cannot read the ancient Greek, but are researching the historical period. ...

Four Comedies (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)

1 review
Aristophanes

University of Michigan Press, 1969

Lysistrata begat Sex and the City
I looked at two of Aristophanes plays in this book: Lysistrata and The Frogs. In reading these plays I made notes for each time I laughed or smiled. I even took notes when I didn't laugh but thought that maybe someone else would. Rather than try to find a theory of humor, I simply recorded what it was that I thought made the line or scene funny. The list is somewhat shocking about the nature ...

Aristophanes: Lysistrata: Translated With Introduction and Notes (Focus Classical Library) (Focus Classical ...

4 reviews
Aristophanes

Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company, 1988

A complete book
I think this is the best presentation of a Greek text, because there is a good introduction, a lot of help behind in the book, but no translation. So this is the ideal Lysistrata for students.

Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women (The New Classical Canon)

1 review
Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson

Routledge, 1996

Can You Say That?
Let me start by saying that this book has the best translations of Aristophanes that I've ever read. Henderson's translations contain really obscene language. That is not to say that I only liked it for the swears. The flow of the play with this obscenity is like the flow of a modern comedy. Why should something as great as a classical play be subject to censorship? Thanks to Henderson ...

Aristophanes: Acharnians. Knights. (Loeb Classical Library No. 178)

2 reviews
Aristophanes

Loeb Classical Library, 1998

Two comedies by Aristophanes in Greek and English
The Loeb Classical Library features the original Greek texts that remain for both of these comedies by Aristophanes and is obviously of great benefit to those who actually read Greek and are interested in playing with the translation in the hopes of arriving at a better understanding of these plays, their author and the time in which they were performed. The "Acharnians" is one of the earliest ...

Lysistrata
Aristophanes

Digireads.com, 2005

Lysistrata

2 reviews
Aristophanes

Theater 61 Press, 2007

Lysistrata is an excellent contribution to theater shelves, though the raunchy subject matter is decidedly for adults only.
Lysistrata is playwright Edward Einhorn's new off-Broadway adaptation of the 2500-year-old classical Greek play by Aristophanes. In addition to the text of the play itself, Lysistrata features essays by Einhorn, sample musical scores, and also a version of the play with the characters and stage directions removed, for directors who wish to make the decisions of who speaks what line for ...

Aristophanes and Athens: An Introduction to the Plays

2 reviews
Douglas M. MacDowell

Oxford University Press, USA, 1995

intro to aristophanes
For anyone who is new to the crude and seemingly inaccessible humour of Aristophanes, this book should come as a blessing. Not only does it give detailed analysis of the political background necessary to appreciate the clever allegories, but acquaints the general reader with the overall messages of Aristophanes' plays that can be outrageously funny and clever. Arisophanes and Athens is very ...

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