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Pocket Books feature more than 100 amazing animals. Each entry has a factfile with bite-sized facts, measurements, statistics, and a clear color photograph. The Pocket Book series helps young naturalists to identify and understand members of the animal kingdom.

This is the first comprehensive edition in any language of the Birds, a play generally recognized as one of Aristophanes' masterpieces--both for its imaginative plot and for the charm and originality of its lyrics. The commentary gives generous help with the translation, for... Read Full Overview

Aristophanes son of Philippus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens known as the Father of Comedy. Feared for his powers of ridicule, his influence was even acknowledged by Plato as the cause of the trial of Socrates. One of the great playwrights of ancient Athens his work... Read Full Overview

The Birds

Birds is generally recognized as one of Aristophanes' masterpieces, for its imaginative plot (it is the source of the word "Cloudcuckooland"), and its charming and original lyrics. This abridgment of Nan Dunbar's widely acclaimed edition of Birds, published in 1995, preserves... Read Full Overview

Of the 1995 full-length edition: Aristophanes addicts unite This book is for us. It has everything that we always wanted to know about Birds and we were unable to find in one place.' Greek Gazette The commentary elucidates with an experts knowledge of syntax, meter, and artifacts...... Read Full Overview

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 had greatly increased... Read Full Overview

A pair of Athenians unite with the birds to found a utopia in this comic masterpiece of antiquity. Aristophanes' finest work, this imaginative farce abounds in wit and vitality.

Discusses important events and accomplishments, and reveals some startling information about the struggle for human and civil rights.

Birds differs from all other fifth-century plays of Aristophanes that survive in having no strong and obvious connection with a topical question of public interest, whether political, literary-theatrical or intellectual-educational. It has, in its own way, plenty of topical and... Read Full Overview

Aristophanes: Die V gel. Ein Lustspiel Zwei weise Athener sind die Streitsucht in ihrer Stadt leid und wollen sich von einem Wiedehopf den Weg in die Emigration zu einem friedlichen Ort weisen lassen, doch keiner der Vorschl ge findet ihr Gefallen. So entsteht die Idee eines... Read Full Overview

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections
such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,
or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe... Read Full Overview

Comedia griega de Arist fanes que gan el segundo premio en las Grandes Dionisias del a o 414 a. C. En el 415 la flota ateniense hab a partido para la expedici n a Sicilia y su xito estaba todav a por dilucidar. Ha sido celebrada por cr ticos modernos que la consideran una fantas... Read Full Overview

Aristophanes: Die V gel. (Orinthes) Zwei weise Athener sind die Streitsucht in ihrer Stadt leid und wollen sich von einem Wiedehopf den Weg in die Emigration zu einem friedlichen Ort weisen lassen, doch keiner der Vorschl ge findet ihr Gefallen. So entsteht die Idee eines Vogelstaates... Read Full Overview