{"product_id":"aristophanes-1-acharnians-peace-celebrating-ladies-wealth-paperback-softback-9780812216622","title":"Aristophanes, 1; Acharnians, Peace, Celebrating Ladies, Wealth (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812216622","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAristophanes, 1\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAcharnians, Peace, Celebrating Ladies, Wealth\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid R. Slavitt (Edited by), Palmer Bovie (Edited by), Palmer Bovie (Edited and translated by), Jack Flavin (Contributions by), Jack Flavin (Translated by), Fred Beake (Contributions by), Fred Beake (Translated by), David R. Slavitt (Contributions by), David R. Slavitt (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812216622\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 January 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.438 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"These three new volumes of plays constitute a boon for classicists and general readers alike. For the reader who comes to tragedy for the first time, these translations are eminently 'accessible,' and consummately American in tone and feeling. For the classicist, these versions constitute an ambitious reinterpretation of traditional masterpieces; after 2,500 years, the poetry of Euripides and Aeschylus has found a new voice-in fact, ten of them.\" (\u003ci\u003eBoston Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.\u003cbr\u003e Aristophanes wrote most of his comedic masterpieces during the Peloponnesian War, parodying the tumultuous politics and society of that time with trademark innuendoes and bawdy stagings and dialogue. In these plays, Aristophanes brings every rhetorical strategem into play to treat the reader to stories of one man's attempt to create a \"war-free zone,\" the rescue of the imprisoned Peace on the back of a giant dung beetle, a satire of Euripides's sympathies for women, and the hustling and healing of a blind and destitute Wealth in order to redistribute the world's riches.\u003cbr\u003e Translations are by Jack Flavin (\u003ci\u003eAcharnians\u003c\/i\u003e), Fred Beake (\u003ci\u003ePeace\u003c\/i\u003e), David Slavitt (\u003ci\u003eCelebrating Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e), and Palmer Bovie (\u003ci\u003eWealth\u003c\/i\u003e). The volume includes an introduction by Ralph Rosen, Professor of Classics at the University of Pennsylvania.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Ralph Rosen\u003cbr\u003e Wasps\u003cbr\u003e -Translated by Campbell McGrath\u003cbr\u003e Lysistrata\u003cbr\u003e -Translated by X. J. Kennedy\u003cbr\u003e Frogs\u003cbr\u003e -Translated by Alfred Corn\u003cbr\u003e The Sexual Congress\u003cbr\u003e -Translated by R. H. W. Dillard\u003cbr\u003e About the Translators\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52716780192024,"sku":"9780812216622","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/aristophanes-1-acharnians-peace-celebrating-ladies-wealth-paperback-softback-9780812216622","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}