Aristophanes Acharnians

Name: Aristophanes Acharnians
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ISBN: 9780198141952

ISBN-10: 0198141955

ISBN-13: 9780198141952

Edition: 2002

Authors: S. Douglas Olson

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Aristophanes' Acharnians was performed at the Lenaia festival in Athens in 425 BCE. The play is the story of an old peasant farmer, Dikaiopolis, who has grown so disgusted with the Peloponnesian War and the patent self-serving of the city's leading politicians (abetted by the stupidity of his fellow-citizens) that he concludes a separate peace with the enemy. As a result, he gains access to an immense supply of wonderful things, including wine, eels, thrushes, and a pair ofbeautiful and compliant women. Whether he is a traitor and a villain, or simply the cleverest and most daring man in the city, is a matter of extensive debate within the play. Acharnians itself, at any rate, took first…

Book details

List price: $275.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/21/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 482
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

S. Douglas Olson is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota.