Lanterna Rally

Author: Aristophanes Aristophanes

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-22

Total Pages: 894

ISBN-13: 9780365292951

Excerpt from The Eleven Comedies: Literally and Completely Translated From the Greek Tongue Into English With Translator's Foreword, an Introduction to Each Comedy and Elucidatory Notes; Two Volumes in One Perhaps the first thing to strike us - paradoxical as it may sound to say so - about the Athenian 'old Comedy' is its modernness. Of its very nature, satiric drama comes later than Epic and Lyric poetry, Tragedy or History; Aristophanes follows Homer and Simonides, Sophocles and Thucydides. Of its essence, it is free from many of the conventions and restraining influences of ear lier forms of literature, and enjoys much of the liberty of choice of subject and licence of method that marks present-day condi tions of literary production both on and ofi the stage. Its very existence presupposes a fuller and bolder intellectual life, a more advanced and complex city civilization, a keener taste and live lier faculty of comprehension in the people who appreciate it, than could anywhere be found at an earlier epoch. Speaking broadly and generally, the Aristophanic drama has more in common with modern ways of looking at things, more in com mon with the conditions of the modern stage, especially in cer tain directions - burlesq ue, extravaganza, musical farce and even 'pantomime, ' than with the earlier and graver products of the Greek mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.