Easton Press: ARISTOPHANES: THE BIRDS: THE FROGS: ATHENS, GREECE 414 B.C. PLAYS

Description: Easton Press leather edition of Aristophanes' "The Birds," and "The Frogs," Introduction by Dudley Fitts, Illustrated by Marian Parry, a COLLECTOR'S edition, one of the 100 GREATEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN series, published in 1979. Bound in hunter green leather, the book has green French moire silk end leaves, satin book marker, hubbed spine, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition---except for a 'blank' attached bookplate and small crimped book press on second page. "The Birds" was staged in 414 B.C. and transports the reader/viewer to the aerial county of Nephelogoccygill or Cloudcuckooland where things as just as bad as in real life---except they are funny. Twice a year at the Dionysian Festivals in Athens, writers of comedy were invited to compete for prizes. "The Birds" is funny but is not a fantasy of escape. Pisthetaerus and Euelphides---"Faithful Friend" and "Natural Optimist"--- are householders of Ancient Athens. They are headed north in the direction of witchcraft and improbably solutions to meet Thereus. His story is a compound of rape, incest, murder, and cannibalism but once the King of Thrace has magically turned into a Hoopoe---a flamboyant and filthy kind of hawk, and is now the ruler of All Birds. Clouds and Cuckoos are volatile and unstable. "The Frogs" has the characters: Bacchus, Hercules, Charon, Euripides, Aeschylus, Pluto, Various Mutes, a Chorus of Mystae, and Frogs. 62 folio-sized pages. I offer Combined shipping.

Price: 34.95 USD

Location: Walnut Ridge, Arkansas

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