Three Plays by Aristophanes presents Aristophanes' three women's comedies in a single volume and in unexpurgated, annotated translations. There are introductions to each play, and general introductory chapters cover Aristophanes, his theater and the women in his plays; an appendix contains relevant additional material from Aristophanes' lost comedies. Three Plays by Aristophanes will interest both readers of classical drama and students of gender studies and social history.
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The translations of the three plays, Lysistrata, Women at the Thesmophoria, and Assemblywomen, are straightforward, reliable, and fun to read. Readers interested in women's history and gender studies will especially welcome Henderson's contribution to their fields
. -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review
. -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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Jeffrey Henderson is Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University. He is the author of The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy and a critical edition, with commentary, of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, as well as numerous essays and articles on Aristophanes, Old Comedy and its social and historical background.
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This review is from: Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women (New Classical Canon) (Paperback)
Let me start by saying that this book has the best translations of Aristophanes that I've ever read. Henderson's translations contain really obscene language. That is not to say that I only liked it for the swears. The flow of the play with this obscenity is like the flow of a modern comedy. Why should something as great as a classical play be subject to censorship? Thanks to Henderson and his translation, we now know exactly what the Athenians saw when they watched Aristophanes.
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Lysistrata was produced at the Lenaia of 411, twenty years into the Peloponnesian War, a panhellenic struggle pitting Athens and her island empire against Sparta and her allies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
notional audience, dramatic festivals, comic poets, citizen males, comic fantasy, citizen women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Lysistrata was produced at the Lenaia of 411, twenty years into the Peloponnesian War, a panhellenic struggle pitting Athens and her island empire against Sparta and her allies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
notional audience, dramatic festivals, comic poets, citizen males, comic fantasy, citizen women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Twain Gods, Twain Goddesses, Peloponnesian War New!
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- Aristophanes : Acharnians, Lysistrata, Clouds (Focus Classical Library) by Aristophanes in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Homeric Hymn to Demeter by Helene P. Foley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Mask of Comedy: Aristophanes and the Intertextual Parabasis (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology) by Thomas K. Hubbard in Back Matter
- Greek Erotica on Attic Red-Figure Vases by Martin F. Kilmer in Back Matter
- The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens by Eva C. Keuls in Back Matter
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- What's Wrong with Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American Worship by Loren J. Samons II in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (The New Classical Canon) by Ruby Blondell in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome by Martha C. Nussbaum on page 139, and page 142
- Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (New Classical Canon) by Ruby Blondell in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Ancient Greek Democracy: Readings and Sources (Interpreting Ancient History) by Eric W. Robinson in Front Matter, and page 250
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