Aristophanes

Frogs (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Unlike many other cultural values that shift and evolve from decade to decade, comedy can be timeless. The comic masterpiece The Frogs, penned by famed Greek playwright Aristophanes more than 2,000 years ago, will leave today's readers doubled over with laughter. When the god Dionysus begins to suspect that the quality of Greek drama has taken a nosedive, he decides to travel to Hades to bring a few of the top practitioners of the form back to life. Predictably, things don't go exactly as he planned.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Floating Press
• Seitenzahl: 78
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781776586233
• Artikelnr.: 41825207

Autorenporträt

Aristophanes ( c. 446 - c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. Also known as "The Father of Comedy", Aristophanes depicted the life of ancient Athens and ridiculed authority leading to a case of slander brought by Plato which led to Socrates' death. Aristophanes' second play,The Babylonians (now lost), was denounced too, this time by Cleon but details of any subsequent trial are unknown and Aristophanes went on to caricature Cleon in his later plays, especially in The Knights.