Aristophanes: Clouds
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (634 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1453683941 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 62 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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--Max Nelson, Bryn Mawr Classical Review. The translation is straightforward and idiomatic, as well as well-paced and funnyIan Storey’s Introduction is perfect for undergraduates. Since the appearance of Sommerstein's very successful literal translation less than twenty years ago, there have been at least five further new published attempts at rendering the play into English. It is certainly a bold enterprise to introduce yet one more translation onto the scene, but Peter Meineck has risen well to the challenge
Was a good and a short book Had to buy this book for my classical culture class. Expected a boring greek story but it was actually a really interesting, weird, and ridiculously funny play with a messed up story and fart jokes which was easy to read.Aristophanes made fun of Socrates and made him look like some kind of buffoon throughout the whole play. With the way Aristophanes' portrays Socrates, it looks like Socrates is wasting his. Great classic read. Best if read in Greek though I'm trying to read more classics, and Clouds was on the list. Enjoyable work, especially the conversation between the just and unjust causes.. Jon Stewart of Classical Greece! Aristophanes can give the readers a tastes of sarcastic humor in the classic era of Greece!
It was revised between 420-417 BC and thereafter it was circulated in manuscript form. The most controversial of Aristophanes' plays, "The Clouds" it is a brilliant caricature of the philosopher Socrates, seen as a wily sophist who teaches men to cheat through cunning argument.. "The Clouds" can be considered not only the world's first extant 'comedy of ideas' but also a brilliant and successful example of that genre. "The Clouds" is a comedy written by the celebrated playwright Aristophanes lampooning intellectual fashions in classical Athens. "The Clouds" was originally produced at the City Dionysia in 423 BC and it was not well received, coming last of the three plays competing at the festival that year. The play gained notoriety for its caricature of the philosopher Socrates ever since its mention in Plato's Apology as a factor contributing to the old man's trial and execution