Thesmophoriazusae

Thesmophoriazusae was performed in Athens in 411 BCE, most likely at the City Dionysia, and is among the most brilliant of Aristophanes eleven surviving comedies It is the story of the crucial moment in a quarrel between the tragic playwright Euripides and Athens women, who accuse him of slandering them in his plays and are holding a meeting at one of their secret festivals to set a penalty for his crimes Thesmophoriazusae is a brilliantly inventive comedy, full of wild slapstick humor and devastating literary parody, and is a basic source for questions of gender and sexuality in late 5th century Athens and for the popular reception of Euripidean tragedy Austin and Olson offer a text based on a fresh examination of the papyri and manuscripts, and a detailed commentary covering a wide range of literary, historical, and philological issues The introduction includes sections on the date and historical setting of the play the Thesmophoria festival Aristophanes handling of Euripidean tragedy staging Thesmophoriazusae II and the history of modern critical work on the text All Greek in the introduction and commentary not cited for technical reasons is translated. Free Read eBook Thesmophoriazusae by Aristophanes – kino-fada.fr Secret Women s Business14 June 2012 I actually quite like Aristophanes, not because he is a brilliant playwright, though since eleven of his works have survived 2500 years I really do not think that I am in a position to comment on his ability Obviously there is a reason, and probably a good reason, not only why his plays have managed to survive, but that his plays managed to survive a somewhat puritan Dark Ages where pretty much anything that wasn t Christian was discarded Okay, that is proba Secret Women s Business14 June 2012 I actually quite like Aristophanes, not because he is a brilliant playwright, though since eleven of his works have survived 2500 years I really do not think that I am in a position to comment on his ability Obviously there is a reason, and probably a good reason, not only why his plays have managed to survive, but that his plays managed to survive a somewhat puritan Dark Ages where pretty much anything that wasn t Christian was discarded Okay, that is probably a bit too general since the Catholic Church didn t really begin banning books until after the Catholic Reformation and despite my respect for my former Church History Lecturer, I still somewhat disagree with his assessment of the Catholic Reformatio...Read this after reading an article in The New York Review of Books which posited that Euripides wroteThe Bacchaeas a response to this play The usual sequence is that the comic writer writes his comedy as a satire of an existing tragedy After reading this play again, I can definitely see where the author of the article is coming from.I wish that I cou...Thesmophoriazusae by AristophanesIn ancient Greece, the women have a celebration Thesmophoria.And male characters wish to and make the necessary adaptations to attend, with funny results at times.I am not taken aback by this play, but I need to write down that I have been trying it.In fact, before getting on with it this morning I had wondered if it is not included in the category tried but near miss.The name sounds familiar and Aristophanes, great author that he is, does not fit m...Boy, I m not sure why Aristophanes satirized Euripides so much, but I can say one thing it s so funny when he does In this play which has a super complicated, super long title , Euripides faces conviction from a group of disgruntled women because they don t like Euripides protrayal of women in his plays Like I may have said before, I feel like I used to see Euripides as a serious figure, but it is hard to have that view any because of Aristophanes Further, I really appreciate ha Boy, I m not sure why Aristophanes satirized Euripides so much, but I can say one thing it s so funny when he does In this play which has a super complicated, super long title , Euripides faces conviction from a group of disgruntled women because they don t ...This is easily the most entertaining Aristophanes play that I ve read Consistently funny, and surprisinglytimeless compared to his political works The basic plot is that Euripides is going to be tried by a grou...Wer glaubt, dass klassische Werke der griechischen Literatur immer trocken und de sein m ssen, der irrt Und kaum ein anderer Dichter der Antike kann das besser beweisen als Aristophanes.Die im Reclam Verlag erschienene Neu bersetzung dieses Theaterst cks aus einer l ngst vergangenen ra geizt nicht mit derben Spr chen oder vulg ren Ausdr cken So, wie die alten Griechen das St ck wahrgenommen haben, wollte der b...Dead serious, I chose to read this play purely because of its ridiculously long title I think in the hypothetical ridiculously longest book titles in the history of humanity , Thesmophoriazusae is right up there on that list along with Origin of the Species and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde I didn t mind Thesmo too much in fact I hold i...Once again Aristophanes play with briliant premise I do like his ideas And I was looking forward reading his final and greatest mocking of Euripides I even skipped this play while reading Aristophanes in order to read it after havingEuripides tragedies readTo my disappointment knowledge of particular tragedies seemed to add no additional pleasure to reading of The Thesmophoriazusae His mocking or Euripides tragedies were for me weakest moments of play And usualy they were much mo Once again Aristophanes play with briliant premise I do like his ideas And I was looking forward reading his final and greatest mocking of Euripides I even skipped this play while reading Aristophanes in order to read it after havingEuripides tragedies readTo my disappointment knowledge of particular tragedi...This was definitely one of my favourites of Aristophanes works so far I read this for school a couple of weeks ago and unlike The Frogs, it actually made me laugh Its funny in the way that Euripides spent a lot of his life degrading and insulting women, to then being completely terrified of them when they come face to face The men of the time spent their whole lives trying to control their wives and sisters to keep their power because they believe they re weak But this play shows in reality This was definitely one of my favourites of Aristophanes works so far I read this for school a couple of weeks ago and unlike The Frogs, it a...Herrlich Aristophanes schreibt also eine Kom die ber seinen Zeitgenossen und Dichter Kollegen Euripides, der sich ob des Inhalts seiner Trag dien mit der Wut der athenischen Frauen konfrontiert sieht, und als eine der Nebenfiguren tritt Agathon auf genau, der aus Pla...

• 08 November 2018
Aristophanes
• hardback
• 458 pages
• 0199265275
• Aristophanes
• Thesmophoriazusae