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A poet who hated an age of decadence, armed conflict, and departure from tradition, Aristophanes' comic genius influenced the political and social order of his own fifth-century Athens. But as Moses Hadas writes in his introduction to this volume, 'His true claim upon our attention is as the most brilliant and artistic and thoughtful wit our world has known.' Includes The Acharnians, The Birds, The Clouds, Ecclesiazusae, The Frogs, The Knights, Lysistrata, Peace, Plutus, Thesmophoriazusae, and The Wasps.… (meer)
Sometimes things do not translate well from one time to another (or one language to another, either). Some of the plays, such as the Birds, the Frogs, and Lysistrata, are interesting and fun plays. Many of the rest simply are too tied to the political players of the time to be compelling. It is difficult to find much relevant to today in plays extolling monarchy at the expense of democracy, so those plays are only interesting as a curiosity, since the story lines are only okay. There was some interest in the idea of a man ascending to heaven on a dung beetle to seek peace, but the story felt flat and underdeveloped. I realize it is not fair to a work out of its time to judge it by the standards of our own time, but I am not a classical scholar, and am not able to judge it by the standards of its own time (to be fair to me, I don't think many classical scholars are really able to do that either; they are just able to understand where it fit, and the political references, in a more detailed manner). Overall, it was a disappointment. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
The dates of Aristophanes' birth and death are variously given, but 445–375 B.C. is a possibility. We know that he was considered too young to present his first three plays in his own name: the lost Daiteleis (Banqueters), which won second prize at the Lenaea in 427 B.C., when he would have been only about eighteen; the lost Babylonians, which won second prize in 426 B.C.; and Acharnians, which brought him first prize in 425 B.C. when he was barely twenty. These plays and the four that followed over the next four years are the work of a very young man endowed with the courage to level unrelenting attacks on no less than the head of state—the demagogic Cleon.
[From Roche's Introduction]
The was with Sparta and Boeotia has been dragging on for six years. The countryside of Attica is a shambles and Athens itself is an overcrowded city in which plague has wreaked havoc. The Acharnians, inhabitants of a deme northwest of Athens whose land has been repeatedly ravaged, are thirsting for revenge. Aristophanes' comedy is a plea for peace, whose fruits and comforts are contrasted with the destitution, hardships, and stupidity of war.
[From the introductory material to Roche's translation of Aristophanes' Acharnians]
DICAEOPOLIS: {with rambling thoughts} The things that have made me eat my heart out— uncountable as the sands of the dunes . . . and the things that have made my heart leap with joy— not more than four . . . let's see . . .
[From Roche's translation of Aristophanes' Acharnians]
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CHORUS: Now is not the time to be lagging so let us start following, Forming up behind them and singing.
[From Roche's translation of Aristophanes' Plutus (Wealth)]
A poet who hated an age of decadence, armed conflict, and departure from tradition, Aristophanes' comic genius influenced the political and social order of his own fifth-century Athens. But as Moses Hadas writes in his introduction to this volume, 'His true claim upon our attention is as the most brilliant and artistic and thoughtful wit our world has known.' Includes The Acharnians, The Birds, The Clouds, Ecclesiazusae, The Frogs, The Knights, Lysistrata, Peace, Plutus, Thesmophoriazusae, and The Wasps.
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Amusing, risqué, clever, insightful and, if you have a good translation —or if you can read Greek—, poetic, (