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1) The Clouds
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In this ancient Greek comedy, Strepsiades has a problem: his good-for-nothing son Pheidippides is gambling away his fortune on horses. Strepsiades wants to send his son to the Thinkery, an expensive school of sophisticated rhetoric, so that Pheidippides can talk his way out of Strepsiades’ debts. At the Thinkery Pheidippides meets Socrates, a fast-talking sleaze ball “philosopher” who teaches his students how to con their way out of trouble....
Author
Publisher
London Athenian Society
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This translation of the eleven surviving comedies of Aristophanes was first published in 1912 by the London Athenian Society. Although the translations were published anonymously, they are presumed to be the work of Oscar Wilde, who was a Greek scholar and member of the Society. This is volume 1 of 2. (Source: Wikisource)
Author
Publisher
London Athenian Society
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This translation of the eleven surviving comedies of Aristophanes was first published in 1912 by the London Athenian Society. Although the translations were published anonymously, they are presumed to be the work of Oscar Wilde, who was a Greek scholar and member of the Society. This is volume 1 of 2. (Source: Wikisource)
Author
Publisher
London Athenian Society
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This translation of the eleven surviving comedies of Aristophanes was first published in 1912 by the London Athenian Society. Although the translations were published anonymously, they are presumed to be the work of Oscar Wilde, who was a Greek scholar and member of the Society. This is volume 2 of 2. (Source: Wikisource)
Author
Publisher
London Athenian Society
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This translation of the eleven surviving comedies of Aristophanes was first published in 1912 by the London Athenian Society. Although the translations were published anonymously, they are presumed to be the work of Oscar Wilde, who was a Greek scholar and member of the Society. This is volume 2 of 2. (Source: Wikisource)
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This is the first of the series of three Comedies-'The Acharnians,' 'Peace' and 'Lysistrata'-produced at intervals of years, the sixth, tenth and twenty-first of the Peloponnesian War, and impressing on the Athenian people the miseries and disasters due to it and to the scoundrels who by their selfish and reckless policy had provoked it, the consequent ruin of industry and, above all, agriculture, and the urgency of asking Peace.-From the introduction...
7) The Clouds
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Clouds is a comedy written by the celebrated playwright Aristophanes lampooning intellectual fashions in classical Athens. It was originally produced at the City Dionysia in 423 BC and it was not well received, coming last of the three plays competing at the festival that year. It was revised between 420-417 BC and thereafter it was circulated in manuscript form. No copy of the original production survives, and scholarly analysis indicates that...
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