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Original Title:	Όρνιθες
ISBN:	0198721773 (ISBN13: 9780198721772)
Edition Language:	Greek, Ancient (to 1453) URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Acharnians
Characters:	Pisthetairos, Euelpides, Hoopoe
Setting:	Greece

Birds

Aristophanes

Paperback | Pages: 552 pages

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Title	:	Birds
Author	:	Aristophanes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 552 pages
Published	:	June 4th 1998 by Clarendon Press (first published -414)
Categories	:	Plays. Classics. Drama. Fiction. Theatre. Humor

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Birds is generally recognized as one of Aristophanes' masterpieces, for its imaginative plot (it is the source of the word "Cloudcuckooland"), and its charming and original lyrics. This abridgment of Nan Dunbar's widely acclaimed edition of Birds, published in 1995, preserves all the material designed to help the less advanced student of Greek or the non-specialist to translate, understand, and enjoy the play. It also retains the notes on staging, but the metrical, textual, and ornithological problems are dealt with more summarily, and purely illustrative parallels are omitted.

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I liked this - a strange and nebulous atmosphereAs two buffoon-clowns organise a biosphere,An Avian Kingdom high up in the stratosphere.Apparently this parodies the Sicilian sphere;I couldnt see that myself, but if its true I fearThat it proved to be prophetic in the coming year.For the war was lost for Athens in that fateful year,And the sharp decline of Hellas became über-clear.

2.5 stars. Aristophanes conservatism is one full display throughout this work as he rails against philosophy, mathematics, the state, poetry, and just about anyone else who doesnt respect the old gods. This wouldnt be so bad if the play were a little less goofy. I sometimes wonder if stuff like this would be considered classic if any other works survived on which to compare it. The only Old Comedy we have is Aristophanes, and so Aristophanes is the author of these Masterpieces. While I can

This comedy ridicules the disastrous Greek expedition to Sicily in 413 BC. More generally, The Birds is a rollicking commentary on man's eternal dissatisfaction with his lot; his habit of ignoring the divinities which shape his ends; is crowded, evil-breading cities; and his tendency to disturb the equilibrium of the universe, Pisthetaerus, with his irresistible rhetoric, is a forebear of the men who sell salvation or the world's goods with equal glibness and ease.

"PEISTHETAERUS: The Air's betwixt the Earth and the Sky.And just as we, if we go to Pytho,Must crave a grant of passage from the Boeotia,Even so, when men slay victims to the Gods,Unless the Gods pay tribute, ye in turnWill grant no passage for the savoury steamTo rise through Chaos, and a realm not theirs."The Birds is another one of my all-time favorites from Aristophanes, ranking amongst plays such as The Clouds and The Frogs- it simply is an imaginative work of art to behold compared to the

My first experience with classical Greek comedy. A colorful lesson in many elements of theater, namely the use of chorus in Aristophanes' parabasis & how to satirize your society to the extent of crushing its religious idols.. Well there was definitely sacrilege in it and it sounds thought provocative even today. Aristophanes was really post modern.. One has to contemplate how the chorus was addressing the judges of the show.. A great experience it was.

So adorable, yet so subversive. Aristophanes is such a bad boy :)Someone should make an IMAX out of this. Who doesnt love furry birds?

"The Birds" was both witty and insightful about the nature of the Athenian dream: to live through play and not pay taxes. Though comical, it changes from a story of two men looking to escape their responsibilities, to their dream of a new world and overthrowing the gods, to the two men's domination. Ironically, much of their power was gained through a matter of others shrugging and doing their very best to avoid responsibility. I found that this play was both charmingly cheeky-- at a couple