Las Aves (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Aristofanes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1530569842 ISBN 13: 9781530569847

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Comedia griega de Aristófanes que ganó el segundo premio en las Grandes Dionisias del año 414 a. C. En el 415 la flota ateniense había partido para la expedición a Sicilia y su éxito estaba todavía por dilucidar. Ha sido celebrada por críticos modernos que la consideran una fantasía llevada a cabo a la perfección1 destacable por la representación de los pájaros y la alegría de las canciones.2 A diferencia de las obras tempranas del autor no se incluye mención directa a las guerras del Peloponeso y hay pocas referencias a la política ateniense, a pesar de haberse escenificado poco después del inicio de la expedición a Sicilia. De las obras de Aristófanes que han llegado a nuestro tiempo "Las aves" es la de mayor extensión.

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About the Author:

ARISTOPHANES, the most famous comic dramatist of ancient Greece, was born an Athenian citizen in about 445 B.C. Forty-four plays have been attributed to Aristophanes; eleven of these have survived. His plays are the only extant representatives of Greek Old Comedy, a dramatic form whose conventions made it inevitable that the author would comment on the political and social issues of fifth-century Athens. This Aristophanes did so well that Plato, asked by the tyrant of Syracuse for an analysis of Athenians, sent a copy of Aristophanes' plays in reply.
    
His earliest play, the Banqueters, won the second prize in 427 B.C. when the dramatist must have been less than eighteen years old, since, as he notes in the Clouds (423), he was too young to produce it in his own name. Another early play, the Babylonians, criticized the demagogue Cleon, who responded by subjecting Aristophanes to legal persecution, and as the author charges in the Acharnians, Cleon had "slanged, and lied, and slandered and betongued me . . . till I well nigh was done to death." Nevertheless, in the Knights (424), he renewed his attack on the popular Athenian leader and won first prize in that year's contest. Plutus (388) was the last of the author's plays to be produced in his lifetime.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1530569842
• ISBN 13: 9781530569847
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 44
• Editor: Abreu Yordi