Complete Plays of Aristophanes by Aristophanes

Complete Plays of Aristophanes

Author: AristophanesPublisher: Bantam ClassicsPublished: 03/01/1984Pages: 592Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 6.80h x 4.20w x 1.30dISBN: 9780553213430About the AuthorARISTOPHANES,...
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Complete Plays of Aristophanes by Aristophanes

Complete Plays of Aristophanes

$14.07

Complete Plays of Aristophanes

$14.07
Author: Aristophanes
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Published: 03/01/1984
Pages: 592
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 6.80h x 4.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780553213430

About the Author
ARISTOPHANES, the most famous comic dramatist of ancient Greece, was born an Athenian citizen in about 445 B.C. Forty-four plays have been attributed to Aristophanes; eleven of these have survived. His plays are the only extant representatives of Greek Old Comedy, a dramatic form whose conventions made it inevitable that the author would comment on the political and social issues of fifth-century Athens. This Aristophanes did so well that Plato, asked by the tyrant of Syracuse for an analysis of Athenians, sent a copy of Aristophanes' plays in reply.

His earliest play, the Banqueters, won the second prize in 427 B.C. when the dramatist must have been less than eighteen years old, since, as he notes in the Clouds (423), he was too young to produce it in his own name. Another early play, the Babylonians, criticized the demagogue Cleon, who responded by subjecting Aristophanes to legal persecution, and as the author charges in the Acharnians, Cleon had "slanged, and lied, and slandered and betongued me . . . till I well nigh was done to death." Nevertheless, in the Knights (424), he renewed his attack on the popular Athenian leader and won first prize in that year's contest. Plutus (388) was the last of the author's plays to be produced in his lifetime.


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