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The Songs of Aristophanes
Author | : L. P. E. Parker |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 618 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0198149441 |
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A comedy of Aristophanes was in large measure a musical performance, and his lyric verse covers a wide range of styles - from popular song to parody of tragedy. The music is lost, and our only way of recovering something of the experience of an Athenian audience is by studying the rhythms of the poetry. This book provides a full text, with scansions, of the lyric of the surviving plays, and an introduction to the different rhythms used by Aristophanes, their origins, and literary associations. Dr Parker pays particular attention to the role played by lyric metre in the structure of the plays and to distinguishing the different levels of metrical style, thus illustrating the integral part metre plays in Aristophanes' dramatic art and satire. She also discusses fully the metrical aspects of textual problems in Aristophanes' lyric, and a section of the introduction traces the evolution of the study of Aristophanes' metres and the influence this has had on the text.
Aristophanes
Author | : James Robson |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2013-10-16 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781472519610 |
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This accessible introduction to the work of one of the world's greatest comic writers tackles key questions posed by Aristophanes' plays, such as staging, humour, songs, obscene language, politics and the modern translation and performance of Aristophanic comedy. The book opens up exciting and contentious areas of Aristophanic scholarship in a way that is engaging and readily comprehensible to a non-specialist audience, never losing sight of the fact that Aristophanes' plays are vibrant literary texts, designed primarily to appeal to a classical Athenian audience as pieces of living drama. Key to the book's appeal is that James Robson conceives of the plays as dynamic texts, containing a treasure trove of information not only about how they might have been performed and received in classical Athens, but also how they might be read and understood today. Most importantly, readers are given the tools and information to make their own minds up about the debates that still rage about Aristophanic comedy in the modern world.
Aristophanes and Politics
Author | : Ralph M. Rosen,Helene P. Foley |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2020-04-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004424463 |
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This book presents a collection of new studies on the political aspects of Aristophanes’ comic plays, produced in Athens in the latter half of the 5th century BCE.
Voices at Work
Author | : Andromache Karanika |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781421412566 |
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The songs of working women are reflected in Greek poetry and poetics. In ancient Greece, women's daily lives were occupied by various forms of labor. These experiences of work have largely been forgotten. Andromache Karanika has examined Greek poetry for depictions of women working and has discovered evidence of their lamentations and work songs. Voices at Work explores the complex relationships between ancient Greek poetry, the female poetic voice, and the practices and rituals surrounding women’s labor in the ancient world. The poetic voice is closely tied to women’s domestic and agricultural labor. Weaving, for example, was both a common form of female labor and a practice referred to for understanding the craft of poetry. Textile and agricultural production involved storytelling, singing, and poetry. Everyday labor employed—beyond its socioeconomic function—the power of poetic creation. Karanika starts with the assumption that there are certain forms of poetic expression and performance in the ancient world which are distinctively female. She considers these to be markers of a female “voice” in ancient Greek poetry and presents a number of case studies: Calypso and Circe sing while they weave; in Odyssey 6 a washing scene captures female performances. Both of these instances are examples of the female voice filtered into the fabric of the epic. Karanika brings to the surface the words of women who informed the oral tradition from which Greek epic poetry emerged. In other words, she gives a voice to silence.
The Birds of Aristophanes
Author | : Aristophanes,Benjamin Hall Kennedy |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UOM:39015062948263 |
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The Plays of Aristophanes
Author | : Aristophanes |
Publsiher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2011-03-23 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781446545287 |
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Birds
Author | : Aristophanes |
Publsiher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780856682889 |
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A comedy by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed in 414 BC at the City Dionysia where it won second place. It has been acclaimed by modern critics as a perfectly realized fantasy remarkable for its mimicry of birds and for the gaiety of its songs.
The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Greece and Rome Vol 1 7
Author | : Michael Gagarin |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 3369 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Civilization, Classical |
ISBN | : 9780195170726 |
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