Birds. Lysistrata. Women at the Thesmophoria

Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson

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Harvard Uni.Press Academi
15 November 2000

Plays & playscripts; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; History; Ancient Greek

Series: Loeb Classical Library

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Aristophanes (ca. 446–386 BCE), one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and political life of Athens at its height. In this third volume of a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson presents a freshly edited Greek text and a lively, unexpurgated translation of three plays with full explanatory notes.

In Birds Aristophanes turns from the pointed political satire characteristic of earlier plays to a fantasy that soars literally into the air in search of a carefree world. Here the enterprising protagonists create a utopian counter-Athens, called Cloudcuckooland, ruled by birds. Lysistrata blends boisterous comedy and an earnest call for peace. Lysistrata, our first comic heroine, organizes a panhellenic conjugal strike of young wives until their husbands end the war between Athens and Sparta. Athenian women again take center stage in Women at the Thesmophoria, this time to punish Euripides for portraying them as wicked. Parody of Euripides' plots enlivens this witty confrontation of the sexes.

By: Aristophanes
Edited and translated by: Jeffrey Henderson
Imprint: Harvard Uni.Press Academi
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: No. 179
Dimensions: Height: 162mm, Width: 108mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 390g
ISBN: 9780674995871
ISBN 10: 0674995872
Series: Loeb Classical Library
Pages: 624
Publication Date: 15 November 2000
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active