These four plays, translated into blank verse by C. A. Wheelwright, present to us the wide range of this ancient playwright's fertile imagination. From war and peace to politics and society to the relationships between mena nd women, no topic is off-limits.
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"I don't always love Aristophanes; he can really cram the obscure contemporary references into his stuff, which makes it sortof impossible to get the jokes. But he makes a lot of fart jokes, too, and those are timeless. " — Alex (4 out of 5 stars)
"I don't always love Aristophanes; he can really cram the obscure contemporary references into his stuff, which makes it sortof impossible to get the jokes. But he makes a lot of fart jokes, too, and those are timeless. "
" The Frogs has one of the best lines in Greek Lit. But the line, as well as most of Aristophanes's work, is NSFW. "
" Just Read Lysistrata and found it not as funny as I'd hoped. "
" Well, obviously I learned that Greek plays are easier to stay awake for than old Greek books, but that the chorus makes zero sense to me. And of course that if you withhold sex anything is possible. "
" Big fan of Aristophanes. Nuf said. "
" My edition only included The Birds and The Frogs. Gained unwanted insight into the low morals of the Greeks. Wouldn't recommend. "
" Who knew Greek theater was airing all the issues we think define the contemporary landscape? "
" The Frogs is laugh-out-loud funny, even in 2008. "
Aristophanes (ca. 446 – ca. 386 BC) is the most famous comic dramatist of ancient Greece. Forty-four plays have been attributed to him, of which only eleven have survived. His plays are the only surviving representatives of Old Comedy, a dramatic form whose conventions ensured commentary on the political and social issues of the day. Aristophanes did this so well that Plato, asked by the tyrant of Syracuse for an analysis of the Athenians, sent a copy of Aristophanes’ plays in reply.
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