Aristophanes Thesmophoriazusae

Aristophanes

ISBN 10 : 0929524047 ISBN 13 : 9780929524047

Editeur : Bryn Mawr Commentaries, 1988

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Thesmophoriazusae- Aristophanes - Thesmophoriazusae meaning Women Celebrating the Festival of the Thesmophoria, sometimes also called The Poet and the Women) is one of eleven surviving plays by Aristophanes. It was first produced in 411 BCE, probably at the City Dionysia. How it fared in that festival's drama competition is unknown but it is now considered one of Aristophanes' most brilliant parodies of Athenian society, with a particular focus on the subversive role of women in a male-dominated society, the vanity of contemporary poets, such as the tragic playwrights Euripides and Agathon, and the shameless, enterprising vulgarity of an ordinary Athenian, as represented in this play by the protagonist, Mnesilochus. The play is also notable for Aristophanes' free adaptation of key structural elements of Old Comedy and for the absence of the anti-populist and anti-war comments that pepper his earlier work. It was produced in the same year as Lysistrata, another play with sexual themes.

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Aristophanes son of Philippus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens known as the Father of Comedy. Feared for his powers of ridicule, his influence was even acknowledged by Plato as the cause of the trial of Socrates. One of the great playwrights of ancient Athens his work will be enjoyed and remembered for years to come. "Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod." " Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war."

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bryn Mawr Commentaries
• Date d'édition: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0929524047
• ISBN 13: 9780929524047
• Reliure: Baguettes de reliure plastique
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Éditeur: Gannon Joseph F.