Mystery Cults, Theatre and Athenian Politics: A Reading of Euripides' Bacchae and Aristophanes' Frogs 1350187321, 9781350187320

Mystery Cults, Theatre and Athenian Politics: A Reading of Euripides' Bacchae and Aristophanes' Frogs 1350187321, 9781350187320

This new comparative reading of Euripides' Bacchae and Aristophanes' Frogs sets the two plays squarely in thei

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Mystery Cults, Theatre and Athenian Politics: A Reading of Euripides’ Bacchae and Aristophanes’ Frogs 9781350187320, 9781350187351, 9781350187337

This new comparative reading of Euripides’ Bacchae and Aristophanes’ Frogs sets the two plays squarely in their contempo

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Aristophanes: Frogs

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Aristophanes: Frogs 0198147732

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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Euripides: Bacchae 9781472539748, 9780715634301

Accessible introductions to ancient tragedies discuss the main themes of a play and the central developments in modern c

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Aristophanes' Frogs 019532773X, 9780195327731

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

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Euripides: Bacchae 0856686085, 9780856686085

This is a commentary on Bacchae. It takes account of the great amount written on the play since then as well as the disc

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Aristophanes: Peace. Birds. Frogs [2] 9780674991989, 0674991982

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Aristophanes: Frogs 9781350080928, 9781350080911, 9781350080959, 9781350080935

A comedy about tragedy and a play about playmaking, Aristophanes’ Frogs (405 BCE) is perhaps the most popular of ancient

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Euripides' Bacchae: The Play and Its Audience 9004070117, 9789004070110

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