Aristophanes: Thesmophoriazusae 0856685593, 9780856685590

Thesmophoriazusae is perhaps the funniest of all Aristophanes' comedies, in which gender inversion and transvestism

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Aristophanes: Thesmophoriazusae
0856685593, 9780856685590

A brand-new translation of the world's greatest satirist. With a signature style that is at once bawdy and delicate

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Aristophanes' comic masterpiece Thesmophoriazusae has long been recognized amongst the plays of Old Comedy for its

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Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on Classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to

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Aristophanes is widely credited with having elevated the classical art of comedy to the level of legitimacy and recognit

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The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and

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"Sozomena" bedeutet auf Griechisch "Gerettetes". Die Reihe widmet sich der Erschließung von Texten,

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Birds differs from all other surviving 5th-century Aristophanes plays in having no obvious connection with a topical que

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Lysistrata is the third and last of Aristophanes' peace plays. It is a dream of peace, of how the women could help

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