61. Aristophanes - Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia aristophanes (born around 450445 BC – died around 385 BC) was a Greek writer who wrote 40 plays. However, only 11 of his plays survive in their entirety. http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristophanes

Aristophanes From Simple English Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia that anyone can change Jump to: navigation search Aristophanes (born around 450-445 BC – died around 385 BC) was a Greek writer who wrote 40 plays. However, only 11 of his plays survive in their entirety. He is famous for writing comedies (funny plays), and even today his plays make people laugh. Many of the jokes in his plays relate to sex. For example, Lysistrata is about a group of women who protest a war by not having sexual intercourse with their husbands until the war is ended. Another well known play by Aristophanes is The Frogs change Surviving plays The Acharnians (425 BC) The Knights (424 BC) The Clouds (original 423 BC, uncompleted revised version from 419 BC – 416 BC survives) The Wasps (422 BC) Peace (first version, 421 BC) The Birds (414 BC) Lysistrata (411 BC) Thesmophoriazusae The Festival Women , first version, c. 410 BC) The Frogs (405 BC) Ecclesiazousae The Assemblywomen , c. 392 BC) Plutus Wealth , second version, 388 BC) change See also Theatre of Ancient Greece change Other websites The Frogs at the Internet Classics archive (English version) This short article can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia by

62. Aristophanes (448?-385 BC) Greek Writer. (448?385 BC) Greek writer. aristophanes is considered one fo the greatest writers of comedy. http://classiclit.about.com/od/aristophanes/Aristophanes.htm

zGCID=" test0" zGCID=" test0 test8" zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') You are here: About Education Classic Literature A-to-Z Writers ... A - Writers - Last Names Aristophanes Classic Literature Education Classic Literature Essentials ... A - Writers - Last Names Aristophanes Aristophanes (448?-385 BC) Greek writer. Aristophanes is considered one fo the greatest writers of comedy. Aristophanes - Greek Writer - 448-385 BC Aristophanes was probably born in Athens, Greece around 448 BC. He was the sone of Philippos. Very little is known about his life, except that he had an impressive theatrical career. Aristophanes - Greek Writer Aristophanes Aristophanes is the only representative of Old Comedy whose work we have in complete form. Old Comedy had been performed for 60 years prior to Aristophanes, and in his time, as shown in his work, Old Comedy was changing. Aristophanes (448-385 BC) Greek writer. Aristophanes was one of the great Greek dramatists. Of 44 comedies, only 11 complete plays survive, with 1,000 fragments of other works. Read more about the life and works of Aristophanes. Lysistrata - Aristophanes Read "Lysistrata," by Aristophanes. "Oh! alas! alas! alas! Oh! woe! oh! woe! Miserable Paphlagonian! may the gods destroy both him and his cursed advice! Since that evil day when this new slave entered the house he has never ceased belabouring us with blows."

63. Aristophanes@Everything2.com Later in his life after Lysistrata, aristophanes wrote less controversial plays, as the political climate had become dangerous. http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Aristophanes

64. Aristophanes aristophanes plays are r egularly performed on stages all over the world. If you come across copies of old school texts, you will find that huge chunks http://www.hellenicbookservice.com/classics/aristophanes.htm

ARISTOPHANES Playwright-comedy.(b. c455 BC). Of the 43 plays we know Aristophanes wrote, only 11 remain in their entirety. These plays are not for those easily shocked by the graphic por trayal of various parts of the male anatomy, or the sort of innuendo which would have had them rolling in the aisles back in the Golden Age and, for that matter, to this day. Aristophanes' plays are r egularly performed on stages all over the world. If you come across copies of old school texts, you will find that huge chunks have been lifted so as not to offend the eyes of the younger reader - and quite right too! Other Authors Compiled by Andrew Stoddart Loeb editions Oxford Classical Texts Green and Yellows Various Notes: (York, Cliff, Max etc.) Penguin translations Clarendon Texts Oxford World Classics Aris and Phillips Chicago Translations Bristol Classical Press The Icons against the books refer to their edition and in most cases the language in which they are written. Click on the images above for an explanation as what to expect from these particular editions. I have tried to scan images of other books, but this is a very slow process.

65. Aristophanes aristophanes (c. 446 BC c. 385 BC) was a Greek comic poet. He wrote at least 30 (54 to some) plays, 11 of which still survive, and his plays are the only http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Live/Writer/Aristophanes.htm

Aristophanes Michael Lahanas ...ask the reader to imagine a dramatic combination of the slapstick of The Three Stooges, the song and dance of a Broadway musical, the verbal wit of W. S. Gilbert or of a television show like Frasier, the exuberance of Mardi Gras, the open-ended plot line of the Simpsons, the parody of a Mel Brooks' movie, the political satire of Doonesbury, the outrageous sexuality of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien wrapped up in the format of a Monty Python movie. Ian Storey (Canada's Trent University) about Old Comedy of Aristophanes The comedy writer Aristophanes Aristophanes (c. 446 BC - c. 385 BC) was a Greek comic poet. He wrote at least 30 (54 to some) plays, 11 of which still survive, and his plays are the only surviving examples of Greek Old Comedy. The comedies of the Athenian playwright Aristophanes are a bit like our cabaret, full of jokes about actuality and politicians (especially Cleon), and parodies of contemporary literature (Euripides and Herodotus are among Aristophanes' victims). The jokes are not very subtle. Usually, someone comes up with a crazy plan (a private peace treaty, curing the blindness of the god of wealth...), and after some complications there is a happy ending with a nice dinner. In The Clouds , the philosopher Socrates is radicalized. In

66. Aristophanes: Lysistrata One of the reasons that aristophanes plays still work even though the situation and people they are satirising are thousands of years out of date - is http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/6422/rev0568.html

Lysistrata Aristophanes Translated by Patric Dickinson Review date: 9/8/2000 Publisher: Nick Hern, 1996 Published: 411 B.C., translation 1957 One of the reasons that Aristophanes' plays still work - even though the situation and people they are satirising are thousands of years out of date - is the way that they develop their ideas. The modern equivalent in feel to his humour would probably be a combination between political and absurdist stand-up comedy. This usually works by taking a sensible idea and developing it to the point of absurdity, while Aristophanes does almost exactly the opposite. He takes an absurd idea (becoming a bird because you're fed up with human politics, making a private peace treaty with the enemy in a long running war) and develops it as though it were serious. In the case of Lysistrata , the absurd idea must have seemed completely ludicrous in a society in which it could be seriously debated whether women had minds at all. As in Women in Power , the play is about women taking over masculine politics. (And it should be remembered that another level of absurdity is provided by the fact that all the female parts would originally have been played by men in drag.) What they want is an end to the long-running Pelopponesian War - a motivation in several of Aristophanes' surviving plays - and the way that they intend to achieve this is to deny sex to their husbands until they see sense. The potential for comedy in this scenario is farily obvious, and Aristophanes makes a good deal out of it. The funniest moments are the women - desperate for sex themselves - trying to sneak past Lysistrata; Myrrhine - the name is the equivalent of something like 'sexpot' in then current Greek slang - working her husband up to a peak of frustration; and the delegation of Spartan men bent double to try to hide their erections. Not subtle, but very funny.

67. To Aristophanes & Back - TIME Best Inventions 100 Best TV Shows Cartoons of the Week Pictures of the Week. To aristophanes Back. Monday, May. 14, 1956. Article Tools http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,808436,00.html

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68. Van Steen, G.A.H.: Venom In Verse: Aristophanes In Modern Greece. of the book Venom in Verse aristophanes in Modern Greece by Van Steen, GAH, published by Princeton University Press....... http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/6874.html

Book Search: Keywords Author Title or ISBN More Options Power Search Search Hints Google contents of this website: Google full text of our books: Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece Gonda A. H. Van Steen Winner of John D. Criticos Prize. Shopping Cart Reviews Table of Contents Google full text of this book: Aristophanes has enjoyed a conspicuous revival in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greece. Here, Gonda Van Steen provides the first critical analysis of the role of the classical Athenian playwright in modern Greek culture, explaining how the sociopolitical "venom" of Aristophanes' verses remains relevant and appealing to modern Greek audiences. Deriding or challenging well-known figures and conservative values, Aristophanes' comedies transgress authority and continue to speak to many social groups in Greece who have found in him a witty, pointed, and accessible champion from their "native" tradition. The book addresses the broader issues reflected in the poet's revival: political and linguistic nationalism, literary and cultural authenticity versus creativity, censorship, and social strife. Van Steen's discussion ranges from attitudes toward Aristophanes before and during Greece's War of Independence in the 1820s to those during the Cold War, from feminist debates to the significance of the popular music integrated into comic revival productions, from the havoc transvestite adaptations wreaked on gender roles to the political protest symbolized by Karolos Koun's directorial choices.

69. Aristophanes Father Of Comedy - Hutchinson Encyclopedia Article About Aristophan Hutchinson encyclopedia article about aristophanes Father of Comedy. aristophanes Father of Comedy. Information about aristophanes Father of Comedy in the http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Aristophanes Father of Comedy

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