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  1. Women in power
    Author: Aristophanes
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    'Women in Power' tells the story of a group of women tired, (just like their author) of the incompetent politicians in the demos. Convinced they could do a much better job than their male counterparts, they inveigle themselves into the council and,... more

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    'Women in Power' tells the story of a group of women tired, (just like their author) of the incompetent politicians in the demos. Convinced they could do a much better job than their male counterparts, they inveigle themselves into the council and, with their leader Praxagora at the helm, succeed in signing over working powers from the men to the women, powers they use to institute a proto-socialist state. A suitable companion piece to the slightly lest chaste 'Lysistrata', 'Women in Power' is as cynical about the status quo as it is romantic about the possibility for change.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: McLeish, Kenneth
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781472503756
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    Series: Bloomsbury Drama Online - Core Collection
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Originally published: in print in Six classical Greek comedies. London: Methuen Drama, 2002
  2. Alkestis
    Author: Euripides
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    When Apollo was exiled for nine years from his Olympian home, he found shelter and hospitality at the palace of King Admetus. To pay him back, Apollo offers Admetus the chance to live beyond the day that fate has decided he will die. There is only... more

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    When Apollo was exiled for nine years from his Olympian home, he found shelter and hospitality at the palace of King Admetus. To pay him back, Apollo offers Admetus the chance to live beyond the day that fate has decided he will die. There is only one catch: when death comes to get him, Admetus must find a willing substitute. Having been rebuffed by his aging (but not ailing) father, Admetus finds a willing proxy in his wife, the eponymous Alkestis, who is brought to Death's door, indeed is led through it, only to be rescued by Admetus's old friend Herakles, who wrestles with Death, and wins.

     
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    Contributor: Walton, J. Michael
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781472503756
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    Series: Bloomsbury Drama Online - Core Collection
    Subjects: Alcestis (Greek mythology)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Translated from the Ancient Greek

    Originally published: in print in Six Greek comedies. London: Methuen Drama, 2002
  3. Birds
    Author: Aristophanes
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    Tired of the unending wittering of Athenian lawmen, Euelpides and Peithetairos flee the city with their trusty feathered companions. However, their hoped-for exile begins with getting lost, and the play opens with them crowing and pecking at one... more

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    Tired of the unending wittering of Athenian lawmen, Euelpides and Peithetairos flee the city with their trusty feathered companions. However, their hoped-for exile begins with getting lost, and the play opens with them crowing and pecking at one another with all the fury of the most terminally bird-brained democrat. Which is when they meet 'his Hoopoeness', the once king Tereus, whom they convince to take them up to a new city, high above the base and grounded demos, burying the age-old animosity between birds and men and, ultimately, challenging the mighty Zeus for the top spot in the sky. The play is full of the most bawdy of Aristophanes' jokes, and is rife with the exasperated cynicism typical of the early satirist of the earliest democracy.

     
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    Contributor: McLeish, Kenneth
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781472503756
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    Series: Bloomsbury Drama Online - Core Collection
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Originally published: in print in Six Greek comedies. London: Methuen Drama, 2002
  4. Cyclops
    Author: Euripides
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    Silenus, father of the Satyrs, has been trapped on Sicily, held prisoner by the Cyclops son of Poseidon, Polyphemus. Silenus is despondent: his captive fate was found when seeking to rescue another god, Dionysus. Instead, it is Silenus and his sons... more

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    Silenus, father of the Satyrs, has been trapped on Sicily, held prisoner by the Cyclops son of Poseidon, Polyphemus. Silenus is despondent: his captive fate was found when seeking to rescue another god, Dionysus. Instead, it is Silenus and his sons who are prisoners, of a much lesser, more ravenous god. The potential for rescue comes when Odysseus, the hero strategist of the Trojan War, washes up on the Sicilian shore. His men too get captured, but rather than bemoan his fate, Odysseus connives to destroy the Cyclops once and for all, using wit, wisdom and plenty of wine. A celebration of the liberating effects of alcohol, 'Cyclops' is a Euripidean take on the Homeric myth, full of jokes, tricks and stagey comedy.

     
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    Contributor: Walton, J. Michael
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781472503756
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    Series: Bloomsbury Drama Online - Core Collection
    Subjects: Cyclopes (Greek mythology)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
    Notes:

    Originally published: in print in Six Greek comedies. London: Methuen Drama, 2002
  5. Frogs
    Author: Aristophanes
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    Losing all faith in humanity, and their basest incarnation, the tragedians, Dionysos, god of the theatre, vows to go to the underworld to revive the greatest tragedian of all, the barely cold Euripides, who had died the year before. Enlisting his... more

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    Losing all faith in humanity, and their basest incarnation, the tragedians, Dionysos, god of the theatre, vows to go to the underworld to revive the greatest tragedian of all, the barely cold Euripides, who had died the year before. Enlisting his servant Xanthias, and asking his half brother Herakles for directions, Dionysos sets off to Hades' Halls, only to find Euripides engaged in a contest with Aeschylus, as to who was the greatest of them all. Dionysos sets himself the task of judging their weighty words, but more often than not these tragedians make him the butt of their jokes. 'Frogs' is a wonderful mix of the living and the dead, of the tragic and the comic.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: McLeish, Kenneth
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781472503756
    Other identifier:
    Series: Bloomsbury Drama Online - Core Collection
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
    Notes:

    Originally published: in print in Six Greek comedies. London: Methuen Drama, 2002