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Lysistrata: Webster's Thesaurus Edition by Aristophanes; W. J. Hickie; Philip M. Parker
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 1281677329
Publication Date: 2006-01-18
Have you ever read a great classic and come across an unfamiliar word? There are many editions of Lysistrata. This one is worth the price if you would like to enrich your vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advance of entrance examinations. Each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text. Not only will you experience a great classic, but learn the richness of the English language with synonyms and antonyms at the bottom of each page.
Lysistrata by Aristophanes; Jack Lindsay (Translator)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 1776524330
Publication Date: 2012-07-01
One of the few plays that survived intact from the heyday of ancient Grecian drama, Lysistrata is an enormously influential work of satirical comedy. In order to bring an end to a destructive and never-ending war, the women of Greece take a temporary vow of chastity, pledging to remain abstinent until the conflict ends. As can be expected, mayhem -- and hilarity -- ensues.
Looking at Lysistrata by David Stuttard (Volume Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 1472519957
Publication Date: 2013-11-01
In Aristophanes' Lysistrata, the women of Athens, fed up with the war against Sparta, go on a sex strike and barricade themselves into the acropolis to persuade their husbands to vote against the war. It is the most often performed of all Aristophanes' comedies. It is also, perhaps, the most misunderstood. This collection of essays by eight leading academics - written for sixth-form students and the general public alike - sets the play firmly in its historical and social context, while exploring Aristophanes' purpose in writing it and considering the responses of modern audiences and directors.
Archaic and Classical Choral Song by Lucia Athanassaki (Editor); Ewen Lyall Bowie (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 3110482371
Publication Date: 2016-06-20
This book addresses the many interlocking problems in understanding the modes of performance, dissemination, and transmission of Greek poetry of the seventh to the fifth centuries BC whose first performers were a choral group, sometimes singing in a ritual context, sometimes in more secular celebrations of victories in competitive games.
Aristophanes' Lysistrata, the Birds, the Clouds, the Frogs by G. K. Carey; James Lamar Roberts
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 0585138192
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
These are the 'Cliff Notes' on Aristophanes' Comedies. Lysistrata, The Birds, The Clouds, and The Frogs. Aristophanes's plays were comedies, satires, and politically charged. Lysistrata is perhaps his most famous, dealing with the power of sex and war in a society where women have control.
Aristophanes' Comedy of Names by Nikoletta Kanavou
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 3110247070
Publication Date: 2010-11-29
The use of significant proper names is one of the most entertaining aspects of Aristophanes' art; unsurprisingly, it has received much scholarly attention. But although there are a large number of articles and scattered comments on individual names, the present book offers the first systematic study on the subject. It is, as far as possible, an exhaustive discussion of significant proper names that appear in Aristophanes' eleven extant plays: personal names (which occupy the largest part), theonyms, place-names, ethnics and demotics - all names that seem to be deliberately used for their meanings
Literary Contexts in Plays: Aristophanes' 'Lysistrata'; by Becnel, Kim
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 20090806
This essay presents a plot summary of Aristophanes's comedy Lysistrata and provides historical, societal, religious, scientific, and biographical contexts. Lysistrata, first produced and set in 411 B.C., takes place in Athens, in the midst of the Peloponnesian War. Fed up with the hardships of incessant war, an Athenian woman, Lysistrata, hatches a plan to end the fighting. Calling together women from all sides of the conflict, Lysistrata lays out her two-pronged strategy. First, all of the women must deny their husbands sex until peace is achieved; secondly, the older women of Athens will seize the money the men need in order to fund the war. What ensues is a bawdy war between the sexes. Lysistrata finds herself having to face down threatening men and keep her sex-starved compatriots from giving in. In the end, her plan works perfectly; the men of Athens and Sparta, desperate to have their wives back, quickly conclude a peace.
Crisis on Stage: Tragedy and Comedy in Late Fifth-Century Athens by Andreas Markantonatos (Editor); Bernhard Zimmermann (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 1283403129
Publication Date: 2012-02-29
This volume explores the relationships between masterworks of Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes and critical events of Athenian history, by bringing together international scholars with expertise on different aspects of ancient theatre. It raises questions about how tragic and comic plays composed in late fifth century mirror the acute political and social crisis unfolding in Athens in the wake of the military catastrophe in 413 BCE and the oligarchic revolution in 411 BCE. It is of particular interest to seasoned classical scholars as well as to those interested in Greek drama and Athenian history.
Venom in Verse by Gonda A. H. Van Steen
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 1400823757
Publication Date: 2000-02-28
Aristophanes has enjoyed a conspicuous revival in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greece. Here, Gonda Van Steen provides the first critical analysis of the role of the classical Athenian playwright in modern Greek culture, explaining how the sociopolitical "venom" of Aristophanes' verses remains relevant and appealing to modern Greek audiences. Deriding or challenging well-known figures and conservative values, Aristophanes' comedies transgress authority and continue to speak to many social groups in Greece who have found in him a witty, pointed, and accessible champion from their "native" tradition. The book addresses the broader issues reflected in the poet's revival: political and linguistic nationalism, literary and cultural authenticity versus creativity, censorship, and social strife.
Aristophanes and Alcibiades by Michael Vickers
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 3110427915
Publication Date: 2015-10-16
The conventional view of Aristophanes bristles with problems. Important testimony for Alcibiades' paramount role in comedy is consistently disregarded, and the tradition that "masks were made to look like the komodoumenoi, so that before an actor spoke a word, the audience would recognize who was being attacked" is hardly ever invoked.
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes by Philip Walsh (Volume Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 900427068X
Publication Date: 2016-08-11
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes provides a substantive account of the reception of Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BC) from Antiquity to the present. Aristophanes was the renowned master of Old Attic Comedy, a dramatic genre defined by its topical satire, high poetry, frank speech, and obscenity. Since their initial production in classical Athens, his comedies have fascinated, inspired, and repelled critics, readers, translators, and performers. The book includes seventeen chapters that explore the ways in which the plays of Aristophanes have been understood, appropriated, adapted, translated, taught, and staged. Careful attention has been given to critical moments of reception across temporal, linguistic, cultural, and national boundaries.

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