Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 177 pages)
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Illustrationen
Edition:
2019
ISBN:
9781350020252
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9781350020238
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9781350020245
Series Statement:
Bloomsbury ancient comedy companions
Content:
"This is the first volume dedicated to Aristophanes' comedy Peace that analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Greek. It launches a much-needed new series of books each discussing a comedy that survives from the ancient world. Six chapters highlight the play's context, themes, staging and legacy including its response to contemporary wartime politics and the possible staging options for flying. It is ideal for students, but helpful also for scholars wanting a quick introduction to the play. Peace was first performed in 421 BC, perhaps only days before the signing of a peace treaty that ended ten years of fighting between Athens and Sparta (the Archidamian War). Aristophanes celebrates this prospect with an imaginative fantasy involving his hero's flight on a gigantic dung-beetle to Olympus, the rescue of the goddess Peace from her imprisonment in a cave, and her return to a Greece weary of ten years of war. Like most of the poet's comedies, this play is heavy on fantasy and imagination, light on formal structure, being an exuberant farce that champions the opponents of War and celebrates the delights of the return to country life with its smells, food and drink, its many pleasures and none of the complications that war brings in its wake."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Content:
Old comedy, Aristophanes, and a play about peace -- Peace as an old comedy -- Peace and its historical background -- Themes and motifs in Peace -- Staging Peace -- Peace: poets, plays and posterity -- Appendix: was there "another Peace?"
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350020221
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350020214
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Storey, Ian Christopher, 1946 - Aristophanes: Peace London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 ISBN 9781350020214
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350020221
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Aristophanes v445-v385 Pax
DOI:
10.5040/9781350020252
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