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Aristophanes: Four Plays

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Aristophanes’s satirical masterpieces, immensely popular with the Athenian public, were frequently crude, even obscene. His plays revealed to his contemporaries, and now teach us today, that when those in power act obscenely, patriotic obscenity is a fitting response. Until now English translations have failed to capture Aristophanes’s poetic genius. Aaron Poochigian, the first poet-classicist to tackle these plays in a generation, offers “effortlessly readable and genuinely theatrical” (Simon Armitage) versions of four of Aristophanes’s most entertaining, provocative and lyrically ingenious comedies, finally giving twenty-first-century readers a sense of the subversive pleasure audiences felt when these works were first performed on the Athenian stage.

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ISBN: 9781631496509
Publication date: 13th March 2024
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation an imprint of WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 432 pages
Genres: Classic and pre-20th century plays