Aristophanes

Broschiertes Buch

The Birds and Other Plays

Beschreibung

Two cunning Athenians persuade the birds to build the utopian city of 'Much Cuckoo in the Clouds' in the sky, blockading the Olympian gods and installing themselves as new deities. The Knights is a venomous satire on Cleon, a prominent Athenian demagogue, who vies with a humble sausage-seller for the approval of the people.

Autor

Aristophanes was born, probably in Athens, c. 449 BC and died between 386 and 380 BC. Little is known about his life, but there is a portrait of him in Plato's Symposium. He was twice threatened with prosecution in the 420s for his outspoken attacks on the prominent politician Cleon, but in 405 he was publicly honored and crowned for promoting Athenian civic unity in The Frogs. Aristophanes had his first comedy produced when he was about twenty-one, and wrote forty plays in all. The eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes are published in the Penguin Classics series as The Birds and Other Plays, Lysistrata and Other Plays, and The Wasps/The Poet and the  Women/The Frogs. David Barrett has translated a number of ancient Greek texts for Penguin Classics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9780140449518
• ISBN-10: 0140449515
• Artikelnr.: 21754761