Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Aristophanes, Aaron Poochigian (Translator)Publish date:2022-03-22Pages:432
Language:EnglishPublisher:Liveright Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9781324091561ISBN-10:1324091568UPC:9781324091561Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.20 x 5.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCFKXCEBRJ
Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly
The citizens of ancient Athens enjoyed a freedom of speech as broad as our own. This freedom, parrhesia, the right to say what one pleased, how and when one pleased, and to whom, had no more fervent champion than the brilliant fifth-century comic playwright Aristophanes. His plays, immensely popular with the Athenian public, were frequently crude, even obscene. He ridiculed the great and the good...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Liveright Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9781324091561ISBN-10:1324091568UPC:9781324091561Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.20 x 5.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCFKXCEBRJ
Aristophanes: - Aristophanes was the most celebrated comic playwright in fifth-century BCE Athens.Poochigian, Aaron: - Aaron Poochigian has published four books of poetry, including American Divine, which won the 2020 Richard Wilbur Poetry Award, and several translations. He lives in New York.
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