Aristophanes and Athens: An Introduction to the Plays

by: MacDowell, D.M.

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 This book provides an accessible introduction to each of Aristophanes' plays, focusing particularly on their relationship to Athenian politics and life, and to the effect that Aristophanes hoped to have on his audience. All passages quoted from them are given in new verse translations, and readers do not need any knowledge of Greek. But scholarly problems are not ignored, and specialists will find here both new suggestions and summaries of different interpretations with recent bibliographical information in the notes.

Chronological Table of Plays
1. Intention and Interpretation
2. The Audience and its Expectations
3. Early Plays
4. Akharnians
5. Horsemen
6. Clouds
7. Wasps
8. Peace
9. Birds
10. Lysistrata
11. Women at the Thesmophoria
12. Frogs
13. Women at the Assembly
14. Wealth
15. Aristophanes and Athens

Subjects:
Aristophane Critique et interprétation
Aristophane Et Athènes
Aristophanes
Aristophanes Criticism and interpretation
Aristophanes Knowledge Greece Athens
Aristophanes Knowledge and learning
Aristophanes knowledge
Athens
Athens (Greece) In literature
Athens (Greece) Intellectual life
Athènes (Grèce) dans la littérature
Comédie grecque Histoire et critique
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Greece
Greece Athens
Greek drama
Greek drama (Comedy)
Greek drama (Comedy) History and criticism
Intellectual life
Komedies
Literature

xiii, 362 pages ; 23 cm

Aristophanes and Athens: An Introduction to the Plays

by: MacDowell, D.M.

• ISBN-13: 9780198721598 / 978-0-19-872159-8
• ISBN-03: 0198721595 / 0-19-872159-5
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995

Price: 59,00 EURO

1 copy in stock