Aristophanes The Birds & The Frogs 1959 Heritage Press Illustrated Hardcover Book includes Original Sandglass Pamphlet

Aristophanes The Birds & The Frogs 1959 Heritage Press Illustrated Hardcover Book includes Original Sandglass Pamphlet

<Condition is Good as Pictured> (normal wear with markings, corners bumped/rubbed, visible edge-wear, age appropriate toning to the interior pages, lightly soiled exterior covers)

—The Birds is a comedy by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed in 414 BC at the City Dionysia in Athens where it won second place. It has been acclaimed by modern critics as a perfectly realized fantasy remarkable for its mimicry of birds and for the gaiety of its songs. Unlike the author’s other early plays, it includes no direct mention of the Peloponnesian War and there are few references to Athenian politics, and yet it was staged not long after the commencement of the Sicilian Expedition, an ambitious military campaign that greatly increased Athenian commitment to the war effort. In spite of that, the play has many indirect references to Athenian political and social life. It is the longest of Aristophanes’s surviving plays and yet it is a fairly conventional example of Old Comedy.


-The Frogs is a comedy written by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed at the Lenaia, one of the Festivals of Dionysus in Athens, in 405 BC and received first place.

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