LEADER 03208oam 22005534 450 001 996201324003316 005 20150123152300.0 010 $a0-674-99587-2 035 $a(CKB)3820000000011966 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001417965 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11780828 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001417965 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11386146 035 $a(PQKB)10504587 035 $a(OCoLC)899735679 035 $a(MaCbHUP)hup0000279 035 $a(EXLCZ)993820000000011966 100 $a20141025d2000 my d 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBirds$eLysistrata ; Women at the Thesmophoria /$fAristophanes ; edited and translated by Jeffrey Henderson 210 1$aCambridge, MA :$cHarvard University Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aLoeb Classical Library ; $v179 300 $aIncludes index. 330 $aAristophanes (c. 450-c. 386 BCE) has been admired since antiquity for his wit, fantasy, language, and satire. The protagonists of Birds create a utopian counter-Athens. In Lysistrata wives go on conjugal strike until their husbands end war. Women in Women at the Thesmophoria punish Euripides for portraying them as wicked.$bAristophanes (ca. 446-386 BCE), 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. In this third volume of a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson presents a freshly edited Greek text and a lively, unexpurgated translation of three plays with full explanatory notes. In Birds Aristophanes turns from the pointed political satire characteristic of earlier plays to a fantasy that soars literally into the air in search of a carefree world. Here the enterprising protagonists create a utopian counter-Athens, called Cloudcuckooland, ruled by birds. Lysistrata blends boisterous comedy and an earnest call for peace. Lysistrata, our first comic heroine, organizes a panhellenic conjugal strike of young wives until their husbands end the war between Athens and Sparta. Athenian women again take center stage in Women at the Thesmophoria, this time to punish Euripides for portraying them as wicked. Parody of Euripides' plots enlivens this witty confrontation of the sexes. 606 $aBirds$vDrama 606 $aGreek drama (Comedy)$vTranslations into English 606 $aGreek drama (Comedy)$3(OCoLC)947136$2fast 606 $aGreek drama$3(OCoLC)947127$2fast 607 $aAthens (Greece)$xSocial life and customs$vDrama 607 $aGreece$xHistory$yPeloponnesian War, 431 B.C.-404 B.C$vDrama 607 $aGreece$zAthens$2fast 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBirds 615 0$aGreek drama (Comedy) 615 7$aGreek drama (Comedy) 615 7$aGreek drama 700 $aAristophanes$0160835 702 $aHenderson$b Jeffrey$f1946- 801 0$bMaCbHUP 801 2$bTLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996201324003316 996 $aAves$917210 997 $aUNISA