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Aristophanes: Four Plays

Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly

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Aristophanes’s satirical masterpieces, immensely popular with the Athenian public, were frequently crude, even obscene. His plays revealed to his contemporaries, and now teach us today, that when those in power act obscenely, patriotic obscenity is a fitting response. Until now English translations have failed to capture Aristophanes’s poetic genius. Aaron Poochigian, the first poet-classicist to tackle these plays in a generation, offers “effortlessly readable and genuinely theatrical” (Simon Armitage) versions of four of Aristophanes’s most entertaining, provocative and lyrically ingenious comedies, finally giving twenty-first-century readers a sense of the subversive pleasure audiences felt when these works were first performed on the Athenian stage.
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Authors:
Aristophanes
Year Published:
2022
Country of Publication:
United States
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9781324091561
Number of Pages:
432
Publication Date:
06/05/2022
Publisher:
WW Norton & Co
Place of Publication:
New York
Language:
English
SKU:
9781324091561

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