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Pocket Books feature more than 100 amazing animals. Each entry has a factfile with bite-sized facts, measurements, statistics, and a clear color photograph. The Pocket Book series helps young naturalists to identify and understand members of the animal kingdom.

This is the first comprehensive edition in any language of the Birds, a play generally recognized as one of Aristophanes' masterpieces--both for its imaginative plot and for the charm and originality of its lyrics. The commentary gives generous help with the translation, for... Read Full Overview

Birds is generally recognized as one of Aristophanes' masterpieces, for its imaginative plot (it is the source of the word "Cloudcuckooland"), and its charming and original lyrics. This abridgment of Nan Dunbar's widely acclaimed edition of Birds, published in 1995, preserves... Read Full Overview

The Birds

Birds was produced at the City Dionysia in the spring of 414 BC. It differs from all the other fifth-century plays of Aristophanes that survive in having no strong and obvious connection with a topical question of public interest, whether political (like Acharnians,... Read Full Overview

Aristophanes son of Philippus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens known as the Father of Comedy. Feared for his powers of ridicule, his influence was even acknowledged by Plato as the cause of the trial of Socrates. One of the great playwrights of ancient Athens his work... Read Full Overview

Aristophanes was one of the Ancient Greeks' most famous playwrights, and some of his works survived to the modern day, including this one.

The Birds of Aristophanes - With Notes, and a Metrical Table is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine,... Read Full Overview

Unlike the author's other early plays, it includes no direct mention of the Peloponnesian War and there are few references to Athenian politics, and yet it was staged not long after the commencement of the Sicilian Expedition, an ambitious military campaign that had greatly increased... Read Full Overview

Birds differs from all other fifth-century plays of Aristophanes that survive in having no strong and obvious connection with a topical question of public interest, whether political, literary-theatrical or intellectual-educational. It has, in its own way, plenty of topical and... Read Full Overview

A pair of Athenians unite with the birds to found a utopia in this comic masterpiece of antiquity. Aristophanes' finest work, this imaginative farce abounds in wit and vitality.

Birds is generally recognized as one of Aristophanes' masterpieces, for its imaginative plot (it is the source of the word "Cloudcuckooland"), and its charming and original lyrics. This abridgement of Nan Dunbar's widely acclaimed edition of Birds , published in 1995, preserves... Read Full Overview

"The Birds" is a Greek comedy written by Aristophanes in 414 BC. The play tells the story of two Athenians, Euelpides and Peisetaerus, who are disillusioned with life in Athens and decide to seek a new city in the sky, built by the birds. Upon arriving in the avian city, the... Read Full Overview

'The Birds' differs markedly from all the other Comedies of Aristophanes which have come down to us in subject and general conception. It is just an extravaganza pure and simple--a graceful, whimsical theme chosen expressly for the sake of the opportunities it afforded of bright,... Read Full Overview

The Birds of Aristophanes is a play written by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, which was performed by members of the University at the Theater Royal in Cambridge in November of 1883. This book contains the Greek text of the play, as well as notes and commentary on... Read Full Overview