The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.
Aristophanes wrote most of his comedic masterpieces during the Peloponnesian War, parodying the tumultuous politics and society of that time with trademark innuendoes and bawdy stagings and dialogue. In these plays, Aristophanes brings every rhetorical strategem into play to treat the reader to stories of one man's attempt to create a "war-free zone," the rescue of the imprisoned Peace on the back of a giant dung beetle, a satire of Euripides's sympathies for women, and the hustling and healing of a blind and destitute Wealth in order to redistribute the world's riches.
Translations are by Jack Flavin (Acharnians), Fred Beake (Peace), David Slavitt (Celebrating Ladies), and Palmer Bovie (Wealth). The volume includes an introduction by Ralph Rosen, Professor of Classics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Aristophanes, 1 : The Acharnians, Peace, Celebrating Ladies, Wealth (Penn Greek Drama Series)

Literature & Fiction

SLAVITT, David R.

Bovie, Palmer

Beake, Fred

Dramas & Plays

University of Pennsylvania Press

Fred Beake is an accomplished author who, besides poetry, has written and edited many volumes of poetry and literary criticism. He writes of his poetry in Places and Elegies, "I have always been interested in the essence of places, but it is really only in recent years that I have begun to look at scenes almost as a landscape artist might, recording particular moments and sights, and making poems from them. Equally in doing this new themes have tended to emerge, notably the decline of the British Empire in the last three pieces."

Places and Elegies: Poems and Translations

History & Criticism

Univ of Salzberg Pr

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