Aristophanes

  • Aristophanes: Ecclesiazusae
    By Alan H. Sommerstein

    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 ...

  • Aristophanes: Frogs
    By C. W. Marshall

    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, ...

  • Aristophanes: An Introduction
    By James Robson

    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 ...

  • Aristophanes: The Complete Plays

    Collected here are all 11 of his surviving plays-newly translated by the distinguished poet and translator Paul Roche.

  • Aristophanes: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
    By Oxford University Press

    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 ...

  • Aristophanes: Four Plays
    By 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
    By Aristophanes

    Aristophanes: The Lysistrata. The Thesmophoriazusae. The Ecclesiazusae. The Plutus

  • Aristophanes: Frogs
    By Aristophanes

    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: The Complete Plays

    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: The Complete Plays

    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: Peace
    By Ian C. Storey

    ... (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 ...

  • Aristophanes: An Author for the Stage
    By Carlo Ferdinando Russo

    ... 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
    By Louis Eleazer Lord

    Aristophanes: His Plays and His Influence

  • Aristophanes: Birds. Lysistrata. Women at the Thesmophoria
    By Aristophanes

    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.

  • Aristophanes: Clouds
    By Aristophanes

    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.