Thesaurus aristophanes biography

By using a running English-to-Latvian thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Lysistrata by Aristophanes was edited for three audiences.
This extraordinary play by master satirist Aristophanes blew my mind when I first read it years ago.
THE BIRTH-YEAR of Aristophanes is placed about 448 B.C., on the ground that he is said to have been almost a boy when his first comedy was presented in.

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The master of Old Comedy. Aristophanes of Athens, one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and political life of Athens at its height. The Loeb Classical Library edition of his plays is in four volumes. The Introduction to the edition is in Volume I. Also in the first volume is Acharnians , in which a small landowner, tired of the Peloponnesian War, magically arranges a personal peace treaty; and Knights , perhaps the most biting satire of a political figure (Cleon) ever written. Three plays are in Volume II. Socrates' "Thinkery" is at the center of Clouds , which spoofs untraditional techniques for educating young men. Wasps satirizes Athenian enthusiasm for jury service. In Peace , a rollicking attack on war-makers, the hero travels to heaven on a dung beetle to discuss the issues with Zeus. The enterprising protagonists of Birds create a utopian counter-Athens ruled by birds. Also in Volume III is Lysistrata , in

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Aristophanes and Alcibiades: Echoes of Contemporary History in Athenian Comedy 9783110427912, 9783110437539, 9783110578225

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter 1
Political Allegory in Aristophanes
“Emphasis”
Alcibiades’ Violence
Alcibiades’ Speech Defect; Legal Constraints on Comedy
The ??µ?d??µe???
The Problem with Political Allegory
Ambiguity in Greece
Aristophanes’ Sophisticated Audience
Polymorphic Characterization
Chapter 2
Wordplay; Pericles, Alcibiades and Aspasia on Stage
Wordplay, History and Ambiguity
Alcibiades and Pericles
Pericles’ Reputation
Aristophanes and Politics
The Text of Aristophanes
Chapter 3
Pericles (and Alcibiades) on Stage: The Story So Far
Acharnians (425 BC)
Knights (424 BC)
Clouds (423 BC)
Wasps (422 BC)
Peace (421 BC)
Birds (414 BC)
Chapter 4
The Tragic Context: the Case of Euripides’ Ion
Euripides Ion
Ion and Alcibiades
Sophocles Ajax and Alcibiades
Pericles and Delphi
Aspasia the Ionian
Chapter 5
Happy Families: Plutus i
The ??µ?d??µe???
The Opening Scene
Wealth Declares Himself
Chapter 6

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Dictionary of National Biography, 1927 supplement/Rogers, Benjamin Bickley

ROGERS, BENJAMIN BICKLEY (1828–1919), barrister and translator of Aristophanes, was born at Shepton Montague, Somerset, 11 December 1828, the third son of Francis Rogers, of Yarlington Lodge, Wincanton, by his wife, Catharine Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Benjamin Bickley, of Bristol and Ettingshall, Staffordshire. He was educated at Bruton School, Somerset, and Sir Roger Cholmley's School, Highgate (now Highgate School), of both of which he subsequently became a governor. He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford, in 1846, and was elected scholar there the same year. He obtained a first class in literae humaniores and a fourth class in mathematics in 1851, and in the next year was elected a fellow of his college. In 1853 Rogers joined Lincoln's Inn, and in 1856 was called to the bar. He vacated his fellowship in 1861, having in that year married Ellen Susanna, daughter of Robert Herring, of Cromer. As an undergraduate he had shown rare gifts and promise, as well as intellectual and moral bent