Author:
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874837940
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A collection of folktales from cultures around the world, reflecting different aspects of war and peace, with notes for story tellers and discussion leaders, and suggestions for storytelling.
Peace Tales
Author:
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874837940
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A collection of folktales from cultures around the world, reflecting different aspects of war and peace, with notes for story tellers and discussion leaders, and suggestions for storytelling.
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874837940
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A collection of folktales from cultures around the world, reflecting different aspects of war and peace, with notes for story tellers and discussion leaders, and suggestions for storytelling.
Aristophanes: Peace
Author: Ian C. Storey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350020230
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This is the first volume dedicated to Aristophanes' comedy Peace that analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Greek. It launches a much-needed new series of books each discussing a comedy that survives from the ancient world. Six chapters highlight the play's context, themes, staging and legacy including its response to contemporary wartime politics and the possible staging options for flying. It is ideal for students, but helpful also for scholars wanting a quick introduction to the play. Peace was first performed in 421 BC, perhaps only days before the signing of a peace treaty that ended ten years of fighting between Athens and Sparta (the Archidamian War). Aristophanes celebrates this prospect with an imaginative fantasy involving his hero's flight on a gigantic dung-beetle to Olympus, the rescue of the goddess Peace from her imprisonment in a cave, and her return to a Greece weary of ten years of war. Like most of the poet's comedies, this play is heavy on fantasy and imagination, light on formal structure, being an exuberant farce that champions the opponents of War and celebrates the delights of the return to country life with its smells, food and drink, its many pleasures and none of the complications that war brings in its wake.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350020230
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This is the first volume dedicated to Aristophanes' comedy Peace that analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Greek. It launches a much-needed new series of books each discussing a comedy that survives from the ancient world. Six chapters highlight the play's context, themes, staging and legacy including its response to contemporary wartime politics and the possible staging options for flying. It is ideal for students, but helpful also for scholars wanting a quick introduction to the play. Peace was first performed in 421 BC, perhaps only days before the signing of a peace treaty that ended ten years of fighting between Athens and Sparta (the Archidamian War). Aristophanes celebrates this prospect with an imaginative fantasy involving his hero's flight on a gigantic dung-beetle to Olympus, the rescue of the goddess Peace from her imprisonment in a cave, and her return to a Greece weary of ten years of war. Like most of the poet's comedies, this play is heavy on fantasy and imagination, light on formal structure, being an exuberant farce that champions the opponents of War and celebrates the delights of the return to country life with its smells, food and drink, its many pleasures and none of the complications that war brings in its wake.
The Birds of Aristophanes
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Aristophanes in Performance, 421 BC-AD 2007
Author: Edith Hall
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1904350615
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Flying to Heaven to demand an end to war, building Cloudcuckooland in the sky, descending to Hades to retrieve a dead tragedian - such were the cosmic missions on which Aristophanes, the father of comedy, sent his heroes of the classical Athenian stage. The wit, intellectual bravura, political clout and sheer imaginative power of Aristophanes' quest dramas have profoundly influenced humorous literature and satire, but this volume, which originated at an international conference held at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford University in 2004, is the first interdisciplinary study of their seminal contribution to the evolution of comic performance. Interdisciplinary essays by specialists in Classics, Theatre, and Modern Literatures trace the international performance history of Aristophanic comedy, and its implication in aesthetic and political controversies, from antiquity to the twenty-first century. The story encompasses Jonson's satire, Cromwell's Ireland, German classicism, British Imperial India, censorship scandals in France, Greece and South Africa, Brechtian experiments in East Berlin, and musical theatre from Gilbert and Sullivan to Stephen Sondheim.
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1904350615
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Flying to Heaven to demand an end to war, building Cloudcuckooland in the sky, descending to Hades to retrieve a dead tragedian - such were the cosmic missions on which Aristophanes, the father of comedy, sent his heroes of the classical Athenian stage. The wit, intellectual bravura, political clout and sheer imaginative power of Aristophanes' quest dramas have profoundly influenced humorous literature and satire, but this volume, which originated at an international conference held at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford University in 2004, is the first interdisciplinary study of their seminal contribution to the evolution of comic performance. Interdisciplinary essays by specialists in Classics, Theatre, and Modern Literatures trace the international performance history of Aristophanic comedy, and its implication in aesthetic and political controversies, from antiquity to the twenty-first century. The story encompasses Jonson's satire, Cromwell's Ireland, German classicism, British Imperial India, censorship scandals in France, Greece and South Africa, Brechtian experiments in East Berlin, and musical theatre from Gilbert and Sullivan to Stephen Sondheim.
The Birds of Aristophanes, tr. by H.F. Cary, with notes
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004324658
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes provides a substantive account of the reception of Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BC) from Antiquity to the present. Aristophanes was the renowned master of Old Attic Comedy, a dramatic genre defined by its topical satire, high poetry, frank speech, and obscenity. Since their initial production in classical Athens, his comedies have fascinated, inspired, and repelled critics, readers, translators, and performers. The book includes seventeen chapters that explore the ways in which the plays of Aristophanes have been understood, appropriated, adapted, translated, taught, and staged. Careful attention has been given to critical moments of reception across temporal, linguistic, cultural, and national boundaries.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004324658
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes provides a substantive account of the reception of Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BC) from Antiquity to the present. Aristophanes was the renowned master of Old Attic Comedy, a dramatic genre defined by its topical satire, high poetry, frank speech, and obscenity. Since their initial production in classical Athens, his comedies have fascinated, inspired, and repelled critics, readers, translators, and performers. The book includes seventeen chapters that explore the ways in which the plays of Aristophanes have been understood, appropriated, adapted, translated, taught, and staged. Careful attention has been given to critical moments of reception across temporal, linguistic, cultural, and national boundaries.
The Idea of Peace in Antiquity
Author: Gerardo Zampaglione
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN: 9780268004705
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN: 9780268004705
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A Peace of the Action!
Author: Damien Carey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A bibliography on peace education reviewed by teachers for teachers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A bibliography on peace education reviewed by teachers for teachers.
Peace Works
Author: Kathleen M. Fry-Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780871789778
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Includes instructions for a variety of projects that promote peace and concern for the environment.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780871789778
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Includes instructions for a variety of projects that promote peace and concern for the environment.
Irene - Peace (Aristophanes)
Author: Sofia Zarambouka
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780934812009
Category : Greeks
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780934812009
Category : Greeks
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description