Aristophanes and Women Routledge Revivals

Aristophanes and Women  Routledge Revivals
Author: Lauren K. Taaffe
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781317700159

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Aristophanes and Women, first published in 1993, investigates the workings of the great Athenian comedian’s ‘women plays’ in an attempt to discern why they were in fact probably quite funny to their original audiences. It is argued that modern students, scholars, and dramatists need to consider much more closely the conditions of the plays’ ancient productions when evaluating their ostensible themes. Three plays are focused upon: Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, and Ecclesiazusae. All seem to speak quite eloquently to contemporary concerns about women’s rights, the value of women’s work, and the relationships between women and war, literary representation and politics. On the one hand, Professor Taaffe tries to retrieve what an ancient Athenian audience may have l appreciated about these plays and what their central theses may have meant within that culture. On the other hand, Aristophanes is discussed from the perspective of a late twentieth-century, specifically female, reader.

Aristophanes and Women Routledge Revivals

Aristophanes and Women  Routledge Revivals
Author: Lauren K. Taaffe
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1138018597

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Aristophanes and Women, first published in 1993, investigates the workings of the great Athenian comedian's 'women plays' in an attempt to discern why they were in fact probably quite funny to their original audiences. It is argued that modern students, scholars, and dramatists need to consider much more closely the conditions of the plays' ancient productions when evaluating their ostensible themes. Three plays are focused upon: Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, and Ecclesiazusae. All seem to speak quite eloquently to contemporary concerns about women's rights, the value of women's work, and the relationships between women and war, literary representation and politics. On the one hand, Professor Taaffe tries to retrieve what an ancient Athenian audience may have l appreciated about these plays and what their central theses may have meant within that culture. On the other hand, Aristophanes is discussed from the perspective of a late twentieth-century, specifically female, reader.

The People of Aristophanes Routledge Revivals

The People of Aristophanes  Routledge Revivals
Author: Victor Ehrenberg
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2018-12-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781135090302

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First published in 1951, The People of Aristophanes provides a sociological account of Athens in the period of its greatest glory. Drawing upon Old Attic Comedy and the plays of Aristophanes, the author recreates, for the reader, the life of Athens at that time. He writes extensively about social structure, family, religion and political relationships within the state, and discusses the far-reaching changes which took place within Athenian society.

Aristophanes Routledge Revivals

Aristophanes  Routledge Revivals
Author: Rosemary Harriott
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-06-10
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 0415749220

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Aristophanes: Poet and Dramatist, first published in 1986, offers an account of the early comedies and Frogs, the most famous of his works. It avoids theorising and abstraction, keeping close to individual passages and scenes, seeking out illuminating similarities and contrasts, both within Aristophanes' own corpus and between the comedian and other writers on whom he draws.

Law and Society in Classical Athens Routledge Revivals

Law and Society in Classical Athens  Routledge Revivals
Author: Richard Garner
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2014-03-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781317800514

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Law and Society in Classical Athens, first published in 1987, traces the development of legal thought and its relation to Athenian values. Previously Athens’ courts have been regarded as chaotic, isolated from the rest of society and even bizarre. The importance of rhetoric and the mischief made by Aristophanes have devalued the legal process in the eyes of modern scholars, whilst the analysis of legal codes and practice has seemed dauntingly complex. Professor Garner aims to situate the Athenian legal system within the general context of abstract thought on justice and of the democratic politics of the fifth century. His work is a valuable source of information on all aspects of Athenian law and its relation to culture.

Aristophanes Frogs

Aristophanes  Frogs
Author: Aristophanes
Publsiher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2021-11-03
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781647920135

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Aristophanes's classic send-up of rivalry within the ultra-competitive world of fifth-century Athenian theatre wins a new lease on life in this fresh line-for-line translation by Peter Meineck. Premiered in 2021 by Aquila Theatre and accompanied here by Meineck’s notes and wide-ranging Introduction, this Frogs offers the best view yet of a high-stakes afterlife contest between two of Athens's late great playwrights. Both are undisputed masters of tragedy. But only one can win and return to save the city.

Lysistrata

Lysistrata
Author: Aristophanes
Publsiher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 65
Release: 1994-10-20
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780486282251

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This classic comedy — from the 5th century BC — concerns the vow of Greek women to withhold sex from their husbands until the men agree to end the disastrous wars between Athens and Sparta. An exuberant battle of the sexes with underlying anti-war theme.

Ecclesiazusae

Ecclesiazusae
Author: Aristophanes
Publsiher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 1998
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780856687082

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Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and farce, the earliest surviving work in the western Utopian tradition, and the source of a blueprint for a communist society on which Plato may well have drawn in his Republic.