Project Gutenberg 2005-08-01 Public domain in the USA. 122 Aristophanes -450 -388 Αριστοφάνης Ἀριστοφάνης Aristófanes Aristofanes The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 With Translator's Foreword, an Introduction to each Comedy, and Elucidatory Notes Reading ease score: 82.1 (6th grade). Easy to read. The wasps -- The birds -- The frogs -- The Thesmophoriazusae -- The Ecclesiazusae -- Plutus. Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Thomas Berger, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2" by Aristophanes is a collection of comedic plays, written during the classical period of ancient Greece. This volume includes translations of several of Aristophanes' notable works, with a focus on satire directed at various aspects of Athenian life and society, particularly highlighting the absurdities of legal proceedings and social customs through clever characters and engaging plots. The opening portion of the volume introduces "The Wasps," one of Aristophanes' comedies, which centers around Philocleon, an elderly man obsessed with his role as a juryman, and his son, Bdelycleon, who wishes to help him abandon this unhealthy obsession. Bdelycleon's attempts to keep his father from attending the courts lead to humorous escapades, including Philocleon's ludicrous efforts to escape imprisonment in their home. The opening part sets the stage for a vivid exploration of the comical struggles between father and son, the farcical elements of their conflict, and Aristophanes' pointed commentary on the Athenian judicial system and the obsession with litigation that characterized his society. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Comedies Greek drama (Comedy) -- Translations into English Athens (Greece) -- Drama Aristophanes -- Translations into English PA Text Classical Antiquity Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 743574 743452 2024-10-04T08:24:41.752938 2023-10-04T07:53:49.699861 text/html text/html 743567 743445 2024-10-04T08:24:42.282930 2023-10-04T07:53:49.980881 text/html text/html 347675 2024-10-04T08:24:55.898823 application/epub+zip 357646 2024-10-04T08:24:46.092892 application/epub+zip 341886 2024-10-04T08:24:44.344918 application/epub+zip 650856 2024-10-04T08:25:02.890781 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 606085 2024-10-04T08:24:54.867840 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 565079 2022-09-04T11:33:47.590303 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 635182 635111 2024-10-04T08:24:41.055938 2023-10-04T07:53:49.073854 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 629925 2021-01-02T09:42:22 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 246201 2021-01-02T09:42:22 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 20425 2024-10-04T08:25:03.416781 application/rdf+xml 16135 2024-10-04T08:24:45.085876 image/jpeg 4003 2024-10-04T08:24:44.626881 image/jpeg 344367 2024-10-04T08:24:42.339919 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia