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The Birds
The Floating Press 2010; US$ 3.99The Birds is a comic play by the Greek playwright Aristophanes. It garnered awards in 141 BC when it was first performed, and continues to be critically received today. A middle-aged Athenian convinces the world's birds to build a new city between the heavens and the earth. This position fortuitously allows them to intercept all communication of... more...
Lysistrata
The Floating Press 2012; US$ 3.99One 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 --... more...
Complete Plays of Aristophanes
Random House Publishing Group 2006; US$ 6.95A poet who hated an age of decadence, armed conflict, and departure from tradition, Aristophanes' comic genius influenced the political and social order of his own fifth-century Athens. But as Moses Hadas writes in his introduction to this volume, 'His true claim upon our attention is as the most brilliant and artistic and thoughtful wit our world... more...
The Eleven Comedies
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99The Eleven Comedies: Knights, Acharnaians, Peace, Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Wasps, The Birds, The Frogs, The Thesmophoriazusae, The Ecclesiazusae, and Plutus. Eleven of his forty plays have come down to us virtually complete. These, as well as fragments of some of his other plays, provide us with the only real example we have of a genre of comic... more...
The Birds and Other Plays
ReadHowYouWant 2008; US$ 4.99Books for All Kinds of Readers ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Each edition has been optimized for maximum readability, using our patent-pending conversion technology. We are partnering with leading publishers around the globe to create accessible editions of their titles. Our... more...
The Thesmophoriazusae
ReadHowYouWant 2006; US$ 3.99Through comedy that targets the practices and prejudices of gender is presented in the play. Based on a religious ceremony in the honour of goddess Demeter, the play contains considerable criticism on literary and dramatic traditions through parody and explicit expression of ideas. more...
Lysistrata
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 5.95In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war. @PussyWhip What?s something we can leverage against men? What?s the one thing we?re good for again? It?s on the tip of my tongue. From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less more...
Frogs and Other Plays
Penguin Books Ltd 2007; Not AvailableThe master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In The Frogs , written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a great debate to help him decide between the traditional... more...
Die Frösche
De Gruyter 1960; US$ 126.00Die Frasche: Mit Ausgewahlten Antiken Scholien (Kleine Texte Fa1/4r Vorlesungen Und Aoebungen) more...
Lysistrata
Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co. 2011; US$ 5.95English translation of Aristophanes' most popular comedy, with a lively, imaginative plot, memorable heroine, and appeal for peace and tolerance between nations and between the sexes. Includes helpful notes and an introductory essay on Aristophanes, the history of the play and its production, a bibliography and suggestions for further reading. more...









