BookRags.com Literature Guides Literature Guides Criticism/Essays Criticism/Essays Biographies Biographies My Bibliography Periodic Table U.S. Presidents Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up
Research Anything:        
History | Encyclopedias | Films | News | Create a Bibliography | More... Login | Register | Help

Search "Aristophanes"

 

Aristophanes Summary

Aristophanes

Print-Friendly
About 37 pages (11,056 words) in 4 products

"Aristophanes" Search Results
Contents:
Biography

Name: Aristophanes
Birth Date: 448 B.C.
Death Date: 385 B.C.
Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
Nationality: Greek
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

summary from source:
Biography of Aristophanes
1,477 words, approx. 5 pages
Aristophanes (448-after 385 BC) was the greatest of the writers of the Old Comedy, which flourished in Athens in the 5th century BC, and the only one with any complete plays surviving. He wrote at least 36 comedies, of which 11 are extant. The Old...
summary from source:
Biography of Aristophanes
4,332 words, approx. 14 pages
Robert Neil, Aristophanes' Knights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1901); Maurice Platnauer, Aristophanes' Peace (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964); Kenneth Dover, Aristophanes' Clouds (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968); Douglas...
summary from source:
Biography of Aristophanes
3,788 words, approx. 13 pages
Aristophanes of Athens was judged in antiquity to be the foremost poet of Old Attic Comedy, a theatrical genre of which he was one of the last practitioners and of which his eleven surviving plays are the only complete examples. His plays are valued...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
summary from source:
Aristophanes Information
1,459 words, approx. 5 pages
Aristophanes (Ἀριστοφάνης, pronounced <span title="Pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA">/ˌærɪˈstɒfəniːz/</span> in English, ca. 456 BC – ca. 386 BC), son of Philippus, was a Greek Old Comic...


News and Journals
summary from source:

AP News
Greek archaeologists discover theater
2/16/2007: 300 words, approx. 1 pages
Sections of an ancient Greek theater were discovered on Thursday during construction work in an Athens suburb, archaeologists said.Until now, only two such buildings were known in the ancient city where western theater originated more than 2,500 years ago.Fifteen rows of concentric stone seats have...
summary from source:

The New York Observer
Why We Miss Susan Sontag, Volume I
2/25/2007: 983 words, approx. 3 pages
At first glance, the cover of Susan Sontag’s final book—the almost-complete manuscript she left at her death in December 2004—seems antiseptic and ultra-modern, like an architectural photograph of the Düsseldorf School. Designed by Winterhouse, a small press run by her friend William Drenttel, it features...
 


Aristophanes Study Pack

Get the complete Aristophanes Study Pack, which includes everything on this page (except "Works by Author"). Approximately 37 pages (at 300 words per page) in 3 products.
This Study Pack Contains:
3 Biographies
1 Encyclopedia Article
Multiple Formats Available:

· online web format
· "print-friendly" format
· downloadable PDF format
· downloadable Word/RTF format
Available Immediately Online
 

Aristophanes

Print-Friendly
About 37 pages (11,056 words) in 4 products


Join BookRagslearn moreJoin BookRags


About BookRags | Customer Service | Report an Error | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy