Aristophanes - Libros y biografía

The plot of the play revolves around Pisthetaerus, an Athenian who convinces the birds to create a great city in the sky, and thus regain their status as the original gods. Pisthetaerus eventually transforms...

The Birds is a comedy by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes.  Aristophanes was a comic playwright of ancient Athens.  

Aristophanes (/?ær??st?f?ni?z/ or /??r??st?f?ni?z/;[Greek: ?ριστοφ?νης, pronounced [aristop?án??s]; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaeum, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens....

Lysistrata (/la??s?str?t?/ or /?l?s??str??t?/; Attic Greek: Λυσιστρ?τη, "Army Disbander") is a comedy by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one...

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"The Frogs" is a comedy written by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. Aristophanes was a comic playwright of ancient Athens.  Translated by  E D A Morshead E H Plumptre Gilbert Murray B B Rogers

The Wasps is the fourth in chronological order of the eleven surviving plays by Aristophanes. Aristophanes was a comic playwright of ancient Athens.  

'The Clouds' is a comedic attack on the qualities of virtue and excellence, as espoused by Sophist philosophers. The central figure, Strepsiades, enrols his dissolute son, Pheidippides, into 'The Thinkery',...

Aristophanes' play, Lysistrata, takes place toward the end of the Peloponnesian War and centers on the lives of the soldiers' wives. One woman, Lysistrata, under the impression that a man's libido is...

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Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background...

Wasps satirizes Athenian enthusiasm for jury service and the law courts as well as the city's susceptibility to demagogues.

Visiting the underworld, the god Dionysus seeks the counsel of the dead tragedians Aeschylus and Euripides on how to bring good writing back to Athens. A fierce debate - full of scathing insults and literary...

Aristophanes' "Esslesiazusae", written in the early 4th Century BC, marks a crossroads in his career. Post-dating the Peloponnesian War, it reflects a late change in his writing and a much changed society....

The story of 'Plutus' concerns Chremylus, a poor but just man, who accompanied by his body-servant Cario, consults the Delphic Oracle concerning his son, whether he ought not to be instructed in injustice...

Socrates' "Thinkery" is at the center of Clouds, which spoofs untraditional techniques for educating young men.

This portrayal of a flawed utopia called Cloudcuckooland is an enchanting escape into the world of free-flying fantasy that explores the eternal dilemmas of man on earth.

A rollicking attack on war-makers, the farmer-hero makes his famous trip to heaven on a dung beetle to discuss the issues with Zeus.

Thesmophoriazusae was performed in Athens in 411 BCE, most likely at the City Dionysia, and is among the most brilliant of Aristophanes' eleven surviving comedies. It is the story of the crucial moment...

Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they are in fact used to define the genre. Also known...

Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they are in fact used to define the genre. Also known...

Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they are in fact used to define the genre. Also known...

Contents: 1. Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Furies, and Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus 2. Oedipus the King and Antigone, by Sophocles 3. Hippolytus and The Bacchae, by Euripides 4. The Frogs, by...

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