The living Aristophanes
By: [by] Alexis Solomos. Translation and adaptation by Alexis Solomos and Marvin Felheim.
Contributors: Felheim, Marvin, 1914-
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Aristophanes -- Criticism and interpretation; Greek drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Translation of Ho zōntanos Aristophanēs.
Table of contents: title: Prolegomena : the theatre of Aristophanes today -- His childhood and inheritance -- The festivities of Dionysus -- Attic comedy -- The Peloponnesian war -- The acharnians : comedy and ideology -- The knights and its enigmatic hero -- The clouds and Socrates -- The wasps go to court -- The peace of Nicias and the peace -- Intermission -- Sicily and Cloudcuckoo city -- The lysistrata, last war play -- The trial of Euripides at the thesmophoria -- The frogs and the end of tragedy -- Transition to the fourth century B.C. -- The posterity of Aristophanes.