{"title":"Aristophanes","description":"Stephen Halliwell is Professor of Greek and Wardlaw Professor of Classics at the University of St Andrews. He has taught in the universities of Oxford, London, Cambridge, and Birmingham, and held visiting professorships in Belgium, Canada, Italy, and the USA. His extensive publications on Greek literature, philosophy, and culture include two prize-winning books: Greek Laughter: A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity (Criticos Prize 2008), and The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems (Premio Europeo d'Estetica, 2008). His book Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. He is a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.","products":[{"product_id":"aristophanes-frogs-and-other-plays-a-new-verse-translation-with-introduction-and-notes-paperback","title":"Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays: A New Verse Translation, with Introduction and Notes - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their brilliant combination of fantasy and satire, their constantly inventive manipulation of language, and their use of absurd characters and plots to expose his society's institutions and values to the bracing challenge of laughter. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis vibrant collection of verse translations of Aristophanes' works combines historical accuracy with a sensitive attempt to capture the rich dramatic and literary qualities of Aristophanic comedy. The volume presents \u003cem\u003eClouds\u003c\/em\u003e, with its famous caricature of the philosopher Socrates; \u003cem\u003eWomen at the Thesmophoria\u003c\/em\u003e (or \u003cem\u003eThesmophoriazusae\u003c\/em\u003e), a work which mixes elaborate parody of tragedy with a great deal of transvestite burlesque; and \u003cem\u003eFrogs\u003c\/em\u003e, in which the dead tragedians Aeschylus and Euripides engage in a vituperative contest of 'literary criticism' of each other's plays. Featuring expansive introductions to each play and detailed explanatory notes, the volume also includes an illuminating appendix, which provides information and selected fragments from the lost plays of Aristophanes.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51323861500127,"sku":"9780192824097","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/P_OBEI4_pO9780192824097.webp?v=1788422403"},{"product_id":"birds-and-other-plays-paperback","title":"Birds and Other Plays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis new verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies offers one of the world's great comic dramatists in a form that is both historically faithful and theatrically vigorous. Aristophanes' plays were produced for the festival theater of classical Athens in the fifth century BC and encompass the whole gamut of humor, from brilliantly inventive fantasy to obscene vulgarity. 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Most people know the plot: Lysistrata assembles women from all of Greece, and they agree that they will not have sex until the men make peace. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAubrey Beardsley was the greatest and the most controversial Art Nouveau illustrator in England, famous for his illustrations of Mallory's \u003ci\u003eMorte d'Arthur\u003c\/i\u003e, Oscar Wilde's \u003ci\u003eSalome\u003c\/i\u003e, Pope's \u003ci\u003eThe Rape of the Lock\u003c\/i\u003e, and for several magazines. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause he was associated with Oscar Wilde, Beardsley lost his job as art editor of a magazine named \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow Book\u003c\/i\u003e in 1895, soon after Wilde was arrested for homosexuality. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was approached by Leonard Smithers, a publisher of erotic books, who asked him to illustrate \u003ci\u003eLysistrata\u003c\/i\u003e. 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His writing--at once bawdy and delicate--brilliantly fuses serious political satire with pyrotechnical bombast, establishing the tradition of comedy as high art. 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