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Aristophanes
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HERMES All I know is that last evening he brought along a huge mortar.
TRYGAEUS And what is he going to do with his mortar?
HERMES He wants to pound up all the cities of Greece in it.... But I must say good-bye, for I think he is coming out; what an uproar he is making!
TRYGAEUS Ah! great gods! let us seek safety; meseems I already hear the noise of this fearful war mortar.
WAR (ENTERS, CARRYING A HUGE MORTAR) Oh! mortals, mortals, wretched mortals, how your jaws will snap!
TRYGAEUS Oh! divine Apollo! what a prodigious big mortar! Oh, what misery the very sight of War causes me! This then is the foe from whom I fly, who is so cruel, so formidable, so stalwart, so solid on his legs!
WAR Oh! Prasiae!(1) thrice wretched, five times, aye, a thousand times wretched! for thou shalt be destroyed this day.
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So weird. So crude. Full of scatological humor, and Aristophanes ripping on Euripides, making fun of the gods, raising up wine and sex and other such fun as antidotes or alternatives to war. I can respect the pacifist angle, and there were some funny lines, but this one mostly just seemed silly.
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Troppo lungo e contorto, peccato per alcune delle scene più semplici che ho trovato molto interessanti e divertenti (a tratti da 5 stelle). Ho apprezzato il lavoro di Aristofane su un'ironia che riesce a variare destinatari e registri linguistici, ma soprattutto il forte simbolismo della storia. All
John Donne's flea: erotic
Aristophanes's dung beetle: chaotic
يعتبر أريستوفانيس من أعظم كتّاب الكوميديا الإغريقية (اليونانية القديمة) ومن أعمدة المسرح الإغريقي، كان من طبقة ملاك الأراضي في أثينا، عبّر عن سخط طبقته من جراء تدهور الأحوال فيها نتيجة الحرب مع إِسبرطة ولتخبط الفئة الحاكمة التي تولّت زمام الأمور في عصره. كما عبّر عن تطلعات طبقته إِلى العودة بأثينا إ
این نمایشنامه آریستوفانس برخلاف چهار اثر قبلی اش که سراسر مملو از شگفتی و هجو نکته سنجانه و هزل خنده دار بودن، و در عین کوتاه بودن طولانی و خسته کننده بود.
یک سوم ابتدای نمایشنامه ایده فوق العاده ای داشت، تریگایوس که از جنگ خسته شده بود، با شنیدن خبر مرگ کلئون و براسیداس، دو سردار جنگ طلب دو دو جبهه
This was hilarious. I didn't expect "breaking the fourth wall" to be such an old humor technique. Aristophanes used it quite well. I was also impressed with the opening. He managed to create interest in the story and questions in the mind of the reader by focusing on peripheral concerns rather than