Aristophanes: The Complete Plays
A brand-new translation of the world's greatest satirist.

With a signature style that is at once bawdy and delicate, as well as a fearless penchant for lampooning the rich and powerful, Aristophanes remains arguably the finest satirist of all time. Collected here are all 11 of his surviving plays-newly translated by the distinguished poet and translator Paul Roche.

 

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Aristophanes: The Complete Plays
A brand-new translation of the world's greatest satirist.

With a signature style that is at once bawdy and delicate, as well as a fearless penchant for lampooning the rich and powerful, Aristophanes remains arguably the finest satirist of all time. Collected here are all 11 of his surviving plays-newly translated by the distinguished poet and translator Paul Roche.

 

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Aristophanes: The Complete Plays

Aristophanes: The Complete Plays

Aristophanes: The Complete Plays

Aristophanes: The Complete Plays

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Overview

A brand-new translation of the world's greatest satirist.

With a signature style that is at once bawdy and delicate, as well as a fearless penchant for lampooning the rich and powerful, Aristophanes remains arguably the finest satirist of all time. Collected here are all 11 of his surviving plays-newly translated by the distinguished poet and translator Paul Roche.

 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440623837
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 02/01/2005
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 736
Sales rank: 952,113
File size: 891 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Paul Roche, a distinguished English poet and translator, is the author of The Bible’s Greatest Stories. His other translations include Euripides: Ten Plays (Signet), Oedipus Plays of Sophocles (Meridian) and The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus (Meridian).

Table of Contents

The Complete PlaysIntroduction

Acharnians

Knights

Clouds

Wasps

Peace

Birds

Lysustrata

Women at Thesmophoria Festival

Frogs

A Parliament of Women

Plutus (Wealth)

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