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Lysistrata (Aubrey Beardsley engravings)
by Aristophanes (tr. J. J. C. Donner into German, illus. Aubrey Beardsley)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good, privately printed, limited edition (#165 out of 400), brown full calf boards, with gilt pressed ruling and spine titl
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About This Item
Vienna: Private, 1913. limited. h/b. Very good, privately printed, limited edition (#165 out of 400), brown full calf boards, with gilt pressed ruling and spine titling, text block firm, pages crisp (only slight foxing).. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Aristophanes most scurrilous play was first performed in Athens around 411 BC. The plot is simple. Lysistrata, frustrated by the many wars Greece wages, gathers her friends, the feisty Kalonika and the very-married Mirrinie to help organise a National Sex Strike. No more sex till we have peace! They camp themselves outside the emblematic Acropolis where they bar all entries and erect a ÔdesexualisedÕ picket line. They will join forces with the strapping Spartan Lampito who orchestrates a similar sex-strike in her homeland. Beardsley's 1896 line drawings were considered by some as his masterpiece and reproduced faithfully in this privately printed, limited edition, German translation.
Synopsis
Aristophanes was born, probably in Athens, c. 449 BC and died between 386 and 380 BC. Little is known about his life, but there is a portrait of him in Plato's Symposium . He was twice threatened with prosecution in the 420s for his outspoken attacks on the prominent politician Cleon, but in 405 he was publicly honored and crowned for promoting Athenian civic unity in The Frogs . Aristophanes had his first comedy produced when he was about twenty-one, and wrote forty plays in all. The eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes are published in the Penguin Classics series as The Birds and Other Plays , Lysistrata and Other Plays , and The Wasps/The Poet and the Women/The Frogs .
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC133219
- Title
- Lysistrata (Aubrey Beardsley engravings)
- Author
- Aristophanes (tr. J. J. C. Donner into German, illus. Aubrey Beardsley)
- Format/Binding
- H/b
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, privately printed, limited edition (#165 out of 400), brown full calf boards, with gilt pressed ruling and spine titl
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- limited
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Private
- Place of Publication
- Vienna
- Date Published
- 1913
- Pages
- 80
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5"")
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, limited, drama, translation, German, Aristophanes, Donner, Beardsley
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
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