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Book Title
Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the
ISBN
9781324091561
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
1324091568
ISBN-13
9781324091561
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9050377548

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Number of Pages
432 Pages
Publication Name
Aristophanes: Four Plays : Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Subject
Classics, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Ancient & Classical, Linguistics / General
Type
Textbook
Author
Aristophanes
Subject Area
Drama, Fiction, Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
12.4 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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Trade
LCCN
2020-022630
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Aristophanes was a funny, often obscene, social commentator, and he was also a brilliantly fluent, wide-ranging poet, whose lyric rhythms were recited and sung to music, with dancing. It's very rare for modern translators to convey his poetic virtuosity or make any attempt to bring his meters to life. But Aaron Poochigan has achieved this feat, crafting polymetric translations that convey the whole range of Aristophanes's larger-than-life characters and provocative, alternative reality scenarios. This new Aristophanes is zany, sharp, inventive, vivacious, and surprisingly relevant for our times.--Emily Wilson, translator of Homer's Odyssey To read the comedies of Aristophanes is to see the Greeks as they saw themselves. These are some of the liveliest, most surprising plays to have come down to us from antiquity. Bawdy, ribald, and thrillingly modern, they have the capacity to overturn everything you thought you knew about the ancient world. In this bold and earthy translation, Aaron Poochigian gives us Aristophanes as the Athenians knew him: mischievous, daring, yet somehow very endearing. You cannot help but smile as you turn these pages.--Daisy Dunn, author of Catullus' Bedspread and The Shadow of Vesuvius Poochigian has reanimated this quartet of Greek dramas with an approach that conveys all the comic energies, political urgencies, and philosophical concerns of the original plays. Alive and alert to the evolutions and mutations of contemporary language but tuned to the pitch and rhythms of ancient literature, these energetic and adroit twenty-first century translations are both effortlessly readable and genuinely theatrical--as lively on the page as they will be on any stage.--Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
Dewey Decimal
882.01
Synopsis
Capturing the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquity's greatest comedies, Aaron Poochigian's Aristophanes: Four Plays brings these classic dramas to vivid life for a twenty-first century audience., The citizens of ancient Athens enjoyed a freedom of speech as broad as our own. This freedom, parrhesia, the right to say what one pleased, how and when one pleased, and to whom, had no more fervent champion than the brilliant fifth-century comic playwright Aristophanes. His plays, immensely popular with the Athenian public, were frequently crude, even obscene. He ridiculed the great and the good of the city, showing up their hypocrisy and arrogance in ways that went far beyond the standards of good taste, securing the ire (and sometimes the retaliation) of his powerful targets. He showed his contemporaries, and he teaches us now, that when those in power act obscenely, patriotic obscenity is a fitting response. Aristophanes's satirical masterpieces were also surpassingly virtuosic works of poetry. The metrical variety of his plays has always thrilled readers who can access the original Greek, but until now, English translations have failed to capture their lyrical genius. Aaron Poochigian, the first poet-classicist to tackle these plays in a generation, brings back to life four of Aristophanes's most entertaining, wickedly crude, and frequently beautiful lyric comedies--the pinnacle of his comic art: - Clouds , a play famous for its caricature of antiquity's greatest philosopher, Socrates; - Lysistrata , in which a woman convinces her female compatriots to withhold sex from their warmongering lovers unless they negotiate peace; - Birds , in which feathered creatures build a great city and become like gods; - and Women of the Assembly , Aristophones's most revolutionary play, which inverts the norms of gender and power. Poochigian's new rendering of these comic masterpieces finally gives contemporary readers a sense of the subversive pleasure Aristophones's original audiences felt when they were first performed on the Athenian stage., Capturing the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquity's greatest comedies, Aaron Poochigian's Aristophanes: Four Plays brings these classic dramas to vivid life for a twenty-first century audience. The citizens of ancient Athens enjoyed a freedom of speech as broad as our own. This freedom, parrhesia, the right to say what one pleased, how and when one pleased, and to whom, had no more fervent champion than the brilliant fifth-century comic playwright Aristophanes. His plays, immensely popular with the Athenian public, were frequently crude, even obscene. He ridiculed the great and the good of the city, showing up their hypocrisy and arrogance in ways that went far beyond the standards of good taste, securing the ire (and sometimes the retaliation) of his powerful targets. He showed his contemporaries, and he teaches us now, that when those in power act obscenely, patriotic obscenity is a fitting response. Aristophanes's satirical masterpieces were also surpassingly virtuosic works of poetry. The metrical variety of his plays has always thrilled readers who can access the original Greek, but until now, English translations have failed to capture their lyrical genius. Aaron Poochigian, the first poet-classicist to tackle these plays in a generation, brings back to life four of Aristophanes's most entertaining, wickedly crude, and frequently beautiful lyric comedies--the pinnacle of his comic art: · Clouds , a play famous for its caricature of antiquity's greatest philosopher, Socrates; · Lysistrata , in which a woman convinces her female compatriots to withhold sex from their warmongering lovers unless they negotiate peace; · Birds , in which feathered creatures build a great city and become like gods; · and Women of the Assembly , Aristophones's most revolutionary play, which inverts the norms of gender and power. Poochigian's new rendering of these comic masterpieces finally gives contemporary readers a sense of the subversive pleasure Aristophones's original audiences felt when they were first performed on the Athenian stage.
LC Classification Number
PA3875.A28

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