102 has nicked Pronomus ' beard : Pronomus is unidentifiable ( LGPN knows no other Athenian of this name ) ; possibly he had been a politician whose sudden disappearance from the public eye ( through death or exile ) had coincided with ...
Plouton Dionysus Aeschylus Euripides Again, I have indicated a choice in giving Aeschylus to B, the Xanthias actor. ... which particularly feature dunning their master one way or another (741–55): badmouthing one's owners, meddling, ...
Blake Morrison, Lisa's Sex Strike In 2007, the theatre company Northern Broadsides toured the UK with a production of Lisa's Sex Strike by Blake Morrison, a play based on Aristophanes' Lysistrata. The piece takes as its setting a ...
Collected here are all 11 of his surviving plays-newly translated by the distinguished poet and translator Paul Roche.
The dramatic festivals ofAthens. 2d ed. Revised by John Gould and David M. Lewis. Oxford: Clarendon. Like Pickard-Cambridge 1962; now contains English translations of the sources. ACTORS, PERFORMANCE, AUDIENCE How was Aristophanes ...
Capturing the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquity’s greatest comedies, Aaron Poochigian’s Aristophanes: Four Plays brings these classic dramas to vivid life for a twenty-first century audience.
Aristophanes: The Lysistrata. The Thesmophoriazusae. The Ecclesiazusae. The Plutus
This volume presents the Greek text of Aristophanes' Frogs, as edited by F. W. Hall and W. M. Geldart, with a parallel verse translation by Ian Johnston on facing pages, which will be useful to those wishing to read the English translation ...
Aristophanes took as his mission to warn them, and he did so with riotous humor, and they laughed, laughed hard, and kept on doing what they were doing, and Athens fell.
Aristophanes took as his mission to warn them, and he did so with riotous humor, and they laughed, laughed hard, and kept on doing what they were doing, and Athens fell.
... (Peace, Wealth), Poseidon (Birds), Heracles (Birds, Frogs), Dionysus (Frogs), Plouton (Frogs), Iris (Birds), Ploutos (Wealth) and a chorus of Clouds called 'awesome goddesses' (Cl. 265).2 Cratinus had choruses of Wealth-Gods and Chirons ...
... Hermes ('but, my dear Hermes, don't get angry with me'). Besides, from a distance, any such movement of Peace's head would have been imperceptible to the spectators: what is essential is its verbal affirmation. Similarly, in Lysistrata ...
Aristophanes: His Plays and His Influence
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.
This translation of one of Aristophanes' most famous plays includes a synopsis of the play, a time line to set the play in its historical context, and running commentary alongside the translation.