Comedias II

by Aristophanes

Las cuatro obras que se presentan en este volumen de Aristófanes (el máximo representante del teatro cómico griego y único autor la Comedia Antigua del que nos han llegado obras completas) se enmarcan en un periodo histórico que significa el principio del fin de la hegemonía de Atenas en el mundo heleno. Aristófanes retrata de forma brillante a esa sociedad ateniense tan rica cultural y socialmente, riéndose de ella a la vez que critica a personajes prominentes, políticas y actitudes de su tiempo.

528 pages, Paperback

Published February 17, 2011

About the author

Aristophanes (Greek: Αριστοφάνης; c. 446 – c. 386 BC) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete today. These provide the most valuable examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are used to define it, along with fragments from dozens of lost plays by Aristophanes and his contemporaries.
Also known as "The Father of Comedy" and "the Prince of Ancient Comedy", Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author. His powers of ridicule were feared and acknowledged by influential contemporaries; Plato singled out Aristophanes' play The Clouds as slander that contributed to the trial and subsequent condemning to death of Socrates, although other satirical playwrights had also caricatured the philosopher.
Aristophanes' second play, The Babylonians (now lost), was denounced by Cleon as a slander against the Athenian polis. It is possible that the case was argued in court, but details of the trial are not recorded and Aristophanes caricatured Cleon mercilessly in his subsequent plays, especially The Knights, the first of many plays that he directed himself. "In my opinion," he says through that play's Chorus, "the author-director of comedies has the hardest job of all."

Reviews

[Luciamarinamp · Rating 5 out of 5]

Me gustó más la traducción que el tomo I. Muy interesantes y sorprendentemente para mi, bastante subidas de tono.