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Frogs and Other Plays Paperback – 30 July 2007

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The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In The Frogs, written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a great debate to help him decide between the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus and the brilliant modernity of Euripides. The clash of generations and values is also the object of Aristophanes' satire in The Wasps, in which an old-fashioned father and his loose-living son come to blows and end up in court. And in The Poet and the Women, Euripides, accused of misogyny, persuades a relative to infiltrate an all-women festival to find out whether revenge is being plotted against him.
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Aristophanes was born, probably in Athens, c. 449 BC and died between 386 and 380 BC. Little is known about his life, but there is a portrait of him in Plato's Symposium. He was twice threatened with prosecution in the 420s for his outspoken attacks on the prominent politician Cleon, but in 405 he was publicly honored and crowned for promoting Athenian civic unity in The Frogs. Aristophanes had his first comedy produced when he was about twenty-one, and wrote forty plays in all. The eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes are published in the Penguin Classics series as The Birds and Other Plays, Lysistrata and Other Plays, and The Wasps/The Poet and the Women/The Frogs.


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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0140449698
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 30 July 2007
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780140449693
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140449693
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 215 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13 x 1.8 x 19.61 cm
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  • Angie Fung
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good condition
    Reviewed in Australia on 19 March 2024
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    Book came in good condition
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  • Tyler
    3.0 out of 5 stars I do not like the formatting of the book
    Reviewed in Canada on 29 December 2014
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    It is a book with a few of Aristophanes' plays in English translation. I do not like the formatting of the book; the lines are not always properly formatted and it is frequently difficult to cite specific lines because there are too many lines in each block of ten.

    I bought a different edition for the class and was much happier with it for it was much better formatted.
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  • William Axtell
    5.0 out of 5 stars Might have been written today!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 July 2013
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    I love Aristophanes. He is so funny and yet, through all the crudity, is a sharp ability to puncture human pretentiousness and bring to light all everyone's instinctive weaknesses. In this book are three of his plays and the most astonishing thing is how much the characters feel like people today. Considering the vast gulf that, in truth, exists between us in so many regards, it is fascinating to see the same mix of sons who think they know best, cowards and inveterate conservatives as today.
    This is edition is also very good. Bar my minor annoyance that a couple of the cruder passages were toned down (I know I'm not dealing with Last of the Summer Wine!)the notes were very full and explained a lot of fascinating detail, which helped contributed to that other advantage of reading Aristophanes, apart from enjoyment, that of getting a real perspective on Classical Athenian society.
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  • Gyan Jyoti Sonowal
    5.0 out of 5 stars Best Old Comedy Play
    Reviewed in India on 20 April 2025
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    Probably the best work of Aristophanes that doesn't explicitly mentions Peloponessian war.
    The play Frogs is the one that attracted me much.
    The Debate between Dionysus and real-life master greek tragedians- Aeschylus & Euripides.
    No doubt about Aristophanes, the father of Old Comedy
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    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Best Old Comedy Play

    Reviewed in India on 20 April 2025
    Probably the best work of Aristophanes that doesn't explicitly mentions Peloponessian war.
    The play Frogs is the one that attracted me much.
    The Debate between Dionysus and real-life master greek tragedians- Aeschylus & Euripides.
    No doubt about Aristophanes, the father of Old Comedy
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  • Mary Rossi
    5.0 out of 5 stars Frogs is an ancient Greek play as as they all ...
    Reviewed in the United States on 10 July 2015
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    Frogs is an ancient Greek play as as they all are, not simple straightforward, girl gets guy kind of plot. It is highly amusing but to understand the humor, some knowledge of ancient greek playwrights and gods is necessary.
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  • Camille Crocker
    5.0 out of 5 stars Purchased for a class
    Reviewed in the United States on 13 January 2020
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    This was purchased for a class. It was in excellent condition.
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