Las comedias de Aristófanes: Traducción de Federico Baraibar y Zumárraga

by Aristophanes, Federico Baraibar y Zumarraga (Translator)

(Atenas, 450 a.C. - id., 385 a.C.) Comediógrafo griego. Poco se sabe sobre su vida; tan sólo algunos detalles extraídos de su obra, de la que se conserva una cuarta parte. Fue un ciudadano implicado en la política participó en las luchas políticas para la instauración del Partido Aristocrático y, desde sus filas, mostró su desacuerdo con la manera de gobernar de los demócratas. En diversas obras, sobre todo en Lisístrata, denunció la guerra del Peloponeso, en la que vio un conflicto fratricida que llevaba a la miseria a los campesinos del Ática.
Se conservan once obras suyas, incluidas todas en este libro, desarrolladas con una estructura definida en la que alternan el diálogo y el
Los acarnienses, 425 a. C.
Los caballeros, 424 a. C.
Las nubes, 423 a. C. Una sátira contra los nuevos filósofos, como Sócrates.
Las avispas, 422 a. C.
La paz, 421 a. C.
Las aves, 414 a. C. Una sátira del imperialismo ateniense.
Lisístrata, 411 a. C.
Las Tesmoforias, 411 a. C.
Las ranas, 405 a. C. Una sátira contra Eurípides.
Las asambleístas, 392 a. C.
Pluto, 388 a. C.

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Published January 23, 2020

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."

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[Jorge · Rating 3 out of 5]

Se supone que me tendría que haber hecho gracia. No ha sido el caso, muy a mi pesar.