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Aristophanes Cavalry

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Author : Robert Tordoff
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-12-28

Aristophanes Cavalry written by Robert Tordoff and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-28 with Drama categories.

Offering for the first time a student introduction to Aristophanes' most explosive political satire, this volume is an essential guide to the context, themes and later reception of Cavalry. The ancient comedy is a fascinating insight into demagoguery and political rhetoric in classical Athens. These are subjects that resonate with a modern audience more now than ever before. Originally performed in 424 BCE, Cavalry was the first play Aristophanes directed himself and it was awarded first prize. It targets the Athenian demagogue, Cleon, who had risen to prominence since the death of Pericles and to pre-eminence after an audacious victory over Sparta in 425 BCE. In Cavalry, Aristophanes attacks Cleon's popularity with the masses, but also criticises the democracy itself as guilty of gullibility, self-interest and political shortsightedness. As the play shows, the only hope of escape from the crisis is for Athens to find a leader even more popular Cleon. And who better to be more foul-mouthed, depraved and shameless than a sausage-seller, if only because he turns out in the end to have a good heart and a true love of traditional Athenian values?

Aristophanes

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Author : Rob Tordoff
language : en
Publisher:
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Aristophanes written by Rob Tordoff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Electronic books categories.

"Offering for the first time a student introduction to Aristophanes' most explosive political satire, this volume is an essential guide to the context, themes and later reception of Cavalry . The ancient comedy is a fascinating insight into power relations between slaves and slaveholders and the upper and lower classes in classical Athens, and its political and social themes resonate with a modern audience more now than ever before. Originally performed in 424 BCE, Cavalry targets the Athenian demagogue Cleon, who had risen to prominence since the death of Pericles and to pre-eminence after an audacious victory over Sparta in 425. In Cavalry , Aristophanes attacks Cleon's popularity with the urban underclass, but also targets democracy itself as guilty of gullibility, self-interest, and political short-sightedness. As the play shows, the only hope of escape from this crisis is for Athens to find a leader even more foul-mouthed, depraved, and shameless than Cleon himself. And who better than a sausage-seller, if only because he turns out in the end to have a good heart and a true love of traditional Athenian values?"--

The Horsemen Of Athens

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Author : Glenn Richard Bugh
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14

The Horsemen Of Athens written by Glenn Richard Bugh and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Technology & Engineering categories.

Glenn Bugh provides a comprehensive discussion of a subject that has not been treated in full since the last century: the history of the Athenian cavalry. Integrated into a narrative history of the cavalry from the Archaic period through the Hellenistic age is a detailed analysis of a military and social organization the members of which came predominantly from the upper classes of Athens. Bugh demonstrates that this organization was not merely a military institution but an aristocratic social class with political expectations and fluctuating loyalties to the Athenian democracy. The last major work devoted exclusively to the subject appeared in French in 1886 and predated the publication of Aristotle's Constitution of the Athenians, which provides valuable information not only on the administration of the Athenian cavalry but also on the democracy that financed it. Furthermore, since the 1930s the American excavations of the Athenian marketplace and the German excavations of the ancient cemetery have yielded unparalleled epigraphical evidence pertaining to the Athenian cavalry, particularly in the areas of personnel and administration. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Aristophanes The Acharnians The Knights

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Author : Aristophanes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871

Aristophanes The Acharnians The Knights written by Aristophanes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with categories.

The Frogs Of Aristophanes

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Author : Aristophane
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 2006

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Aristophanes A Metrical Version Of The Acharnians The Knights And The Birds With Occasional Comment By J H Frere

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Author : Aristophanes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886

Aristophanes A Metrical Version Of The Acharnians The Knights And The Birds With Occasional Comment By J H Frere written by Aristophanes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with categories.