Aristophanes' 'Visit' will not be cheerful and witty. Because from Aristophanes we expect something more joyful: 'grace'. Comedy is often the lament of the author who cannot, or is not allowed to, write tragedy. In comedy, the outcome is the punishment of someone. There is no forgiveness.
Aristophanes saw his homeland Athens 'sinning' (in the ancient sense of the word here). He initially tried to ignore the flow of History. Then he tried to halt it (utopia). He desired History frozen at the moment of humanity's greatest glory and victory, in the Golden Age.
(. . .) [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
Manufacturer
- Author
- Aristofanis
- Publisher
- Ekdoseis Kastanioti
- Genre
- Ancient Greek Literature
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 97
- Release Date
- -
- Publication Date
- 1997
- Dimensions
- 14x20.5 cm
- Language
- Greek
- Original text
- No
- Translation
- -
- Bilingual edition
- No
- Collector's edition
- No
- Illustrated edition
- No
- ISBN-13
- 9789600318845
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