Birds: With Lysistrata and Thesmophoria [Audiobook] download free by Aristophanes
- Listen audiobook: Birds: With Lysistrata and Thesmophoria
- Author: Aristophanes
- Release date: 2000/1/27
- Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780674995871
- Rating: 8.66 of 10
- Votes: 117
- Review by: Emilee Coffin
- Review rating: 7.72 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/17
- Duration: 7H43M55S in 256 kbps (124.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-22
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, AAC, WAV, WMA, MP3, MP4, MPEG4 (compression RAR, ZIP, LZ, TAR.Z, EML)
- Total pages original book: 624
- Includes a PDF summary of 65 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 47M28S (13 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Aristophanes (ca. 446-386 BCE), one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and political life of Athens at its height. In this third volume of a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson presents a freshly edited Greek text and a lively, unexpurgated translation of three plays with full explanatory notes.In Birds Aristophanes turns from the pointed political satire characteristic of earlier plays to a fantasy that soars literally into the air in search of a carefree world. Here the enterprising protagonists create a utopian counter-Athens, called Cloudcuckooland, ruled by birds. Lysistrata blends boisterous comedy and an earnest call for peace. Lysistrata, our first comic heroine, organizes a panhellenic conjugal strike of young wives until their husbands end the war between Athens and Sparta. Athenian women again take center stage in Women at the Thesmophoria, this time to punish Euripides for portraying them as wicked. Parody of Euripides' plots enlivens this witty confrontation of the sexes.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights, Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval, Plays, Playscripts
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 40.29 USD
- Dimensions: 115x170x26.92mm
- Weight: 390g
- Printed by: LOEB
- Published in: Cambridge, Mass, United States
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