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The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata by Aristophanes
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Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata…

by Aristophanes

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Plume (1994), Paperback, 624 pages

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Frigging Hilarious. And taught me something about translation: if you translate a comedy and the result isn't comedic, you have failed. (Unless it wasn't funny in the first place, or you're writing for an audience of scholars.) Good translation evokes feelings similar to the ones that readers of the original text experience. If that means you have to take liberties with meaning, so be it. ( )
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This volume features four celebrated masterpieces: Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Assembly-Women, and Plutus (Wealth), all in new translations by the distinguished poet and translator Paul Roche.

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