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Title: Aristophanes: Four Comedies by Dudley Fitts, Dudley Aristophanes ISBN: 0-15-602765-8 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 06 January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Big yuks in Old Greece
Comment: Years (many years) ago when I was an English major at UMass, we were given two translations of Aristophanes "The Birds" to read in order to make a point about reading translations. One was by a translator whose name I forgot (and gladly so). The other was by Mr. Fitts. The first was as boring as the ininitiated would expect a Greek comedy to be. But Fitts version, far truer to the original according to our professor, was totally bizarre and remarkably funny. It is as vibrant and eye-opening as Fagles translations of Homer.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Ultimate Aristophanes
Comment: "Whiiiine, I don't want to read old Greek plays...they're so booooring", you say? Well, you might think that is true, especially if one your teachers bludgeoned you with the horrible British translations of Aristophanes that were done in the nineteenth century. The Victorian prudes of the nineteenth century were deeply embarrassed by the content of the Greek comedies. They felt that penis jokes were not the sort of morally uplifting things that the ancients should have talked about. All that changes with the Dudley Fitts translation. Fitts bring life back to old Aristophanes. The pace is quick and the dialogue is hysterically funny. Aristophanes was the leading wit of his time. If you can imagine a mix of P.J. O'Rourke and Jim Carrey, then you'd be close to getting at Aristophanes. The humor is sharp and often over the top, often with very earthy overtones; essentially, Greek. You really haven't read Aristophanes until you've Fitts' "Aristophanes:F! our Comedies." This is a translation to be enjoyed by all and not to dreaded as a crime to assign and punishment to read.
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Title: Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (The Complete Greek Tragedies, Vol 1) by Sophocles, David Greene, Richard Lattimore, David Grene, Richmond Lattimore ISBN: 0226307921 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Ramayana, The: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Penguin Classic) by R. K. Narayan, Kampar Ramayanam ISBN: 0140187006 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Odyssey by Homer, Robert Fitzgerald, D. S. Carne-Ross ISBN: 0374525749 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 05 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Akhenaten : Dweller in TruthA Novel by Naguib Mahfouz, Tagreid Abu-Hassabo ISBN: 0385499094 Publisher: Anchor Pub Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (3rd Edition) by R.S. Gwynn ISBN: 0321087208 Publisher: Longman Pub. Date: 25 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.67 |
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