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  <title><![CDATA[Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Clouds/The Birds/Lysistrata/The Frogs]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1983</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Clouds/The Birds/Lysistrata/The Frogs</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Aristophanes]]></name>
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    <review id="8477739">
    <user id="424514">
    <name><![CDATA[Abigail]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Port Chester, NY]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Students of Classical Greece, Drama Majors]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 31 08:39:02 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 25 16:03:11 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although I am a student of classical antiquity, and studied classical Greek in college, I have never been able to work up more than an academic interest in Aristophanes. While I can see the importance of his work - both as a social commentary on the Athens of the fifth-century BCE, and as a cornerst...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8477739">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="15593660">
    <user id="901936">
    <name><![CDATA[Danger]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Denver, CO]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[everyone, classicists, people who like good comedy]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Feb 16 17:39:47 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 28 14:00:34 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The thing which most impressed me about this book was that the plays are dialectically translated: that is, Roche not only follows the originals as literally as possible, he uses modern slang to capture the cultural connotations, double entendres, and dirty jokes of the Ancients in all their accurat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15593660">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15593660]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="45891546">
    <user id="2010045">
    <name><![CDATA[Trey]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Monterrey, 19, Mexico]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon Feb 09 19:50:32 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Feb 09 19:51:50 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Aristophanes, like Ovid, is funny and coarse. A lot of his jokes and sly little remarks would make my mother blush some 2500 years after he wrote these plays. How can you not love a guy like that?]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45891546]]></url>
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    <review id="48133417">
    <user id="85628">
    <name><![CDATA[Heather]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Los Angeles, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <date_added>Tue Mar 03 13:14:23 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Mar 04 16:07:35 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, obviously I learned that Greek plays are easier to stay awake for than old Greek books, but that the chorus makes zero sense to me. And of course that if you withhold sex anything is possible.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48133417]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="43424118">
    <user id="1923556">
    <name><![CDATA[Spencer]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Soda Springs, ID]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 17 21:30:26 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 17 21:31:44 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My edition only included The Birds and The Frogs.  Gained unwanted insight into the low morals of the Greeks.  Wouldn't recommend.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43424118]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="76287307">
    <user id="1064363">
    <name><![CDATA[Charles]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Raleigh, NC]]></location>        
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      <rating>0</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Oct 31 06:32:56 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 31 06:33:55 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in C. Wayne Tucker's Greek Literature in Translation during my sophomore year at Hampden-Sydney.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76287307]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="64081552">
    <user id="265558">
    <name><![CDATA[Sara]]></name>
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun Jul 19 08:01:09 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 19 08:01:27 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Aristophanes is hilarious sometimes.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64081552]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="4459773">
    <user id="272983">
    <name><![CDATA[Luis]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 12 22:15:34 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 12 22:31:09 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unstoppably funny.  The Clouds is an old favorite and the Frogs a more recent discovery but Aristophanes is definitely my sense of humor; certainly, I find him much funnier than Menander, who is more a chore than anything else for me.  How could I forget Lysistrata?!<br/><br/>This edition, in part...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4459773">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4459773]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="45758764">
    <user id="2010075">
    <name><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun Feb 08 14:20:08 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 20 18:39:47 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Big fan of Aristophanes.  Nuf said.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45758764]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="1474953">
    <user id="101061">
    <name><![CDATA[Brian]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Fort Myers, FL]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/101061-brian]]></url>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun May 27 11:34:33 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 20 20:28:05 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Frigging Hilarious.  And taught me something about translation: if you translate a comedy and the result isn't comedic, you have failed.  (Unless it wasn't funny in the first place, or you're writing for an audience of scholars.)  Good translation evokes feelings similar to the ones that readers of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1474953">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1474953]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="35633973">
    <user id="1021185">
    <name><![CDATA[Nikki Faith]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Riverside, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Oct 18 11:12:19 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 26 19:39:40 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read &quot;The Birds&quot; and &quot;The Clouds.&quot;  These plays are well done, but as I continued through the second play, I found myself tiring of reading plays.  The humor was great though and they were well translated.<br/>Honestly, what I appreciated the most in this text was the fact tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35633973">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35633973]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="9567596">
    <user id="97521">
    <name><![CDATA[Stephy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Mundelein, IL]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/97521-stephy]]></url>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[intelligent readers]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1965</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Nov 26 13:48:54 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 10 17:22:51 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have loved these Ancient works since I was a young adult, maybe fifteen or so. They had stood the test of time, and are in places, incredibly funny. Imagine a veiled-in-black,  Greek Chorus, looking severe, making frog noises! I loved it. Always have.<br/>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9567596]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="3652703">
    <user id="228937">
    <name><![CDATA[Tree]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Arlington, MA]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/228937-tree]]></url>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 27 10:18:37 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 27 10:21:21 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Lysistrata is very funny. And very sexist. Not a book for the politically correct.<br/>You will miss some of the best innuendo from this book if you do not find an accurate translation. Beware of translations that try to re-moralize a story that shouldn't be. <br/>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3652703]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="12677640">
    <user id="778160">
    <name><![CDATA[Xa]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Winterset, IA]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Wed Jan 16 11:55:15 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 28 10:55:33 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm reading Lysistrata for Banned Books Week 2009. This translator's depiction of Lampito is absolutely hilarious; I could just hug him.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12677640]]></url>
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    <review id="18535398">
    <user id="128779">
    <name><![CDATA[Mary]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Diego, CA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon Mar 24 14:36:04 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 24 14:36:40 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Who knew Greek theater was airing all the issues we think define the contemporary landscape? ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18535398]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="4350440">
    <user id="266439">
    <name><![CDATA[Sarah]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Charleston, IL]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Thu Aug 09 22:30:15 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Out of the four plays, I enjoyed &quot;The Clouds&quot; the most because it was very comical. ]]></body>
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    <review id="16544218">
    <user id="949080">
    <name><![CDATA[Richelle]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Salt Lake City, UT]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good translation and very funny. Lysistrata is particularly timely.]]></body>
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    <review id="6895060">
    <user id="418807">
    <name><![CDATA[Sally]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Aristophanes is my favorite classic comedian. There, I said it. ]]></body>
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    <review id="30127867">
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    <name><![CDATA[Victoria]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading &quot;The Frogs&quot; for my grad seminar.  Very funny!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Frogs is laugh-out-loud funny, even in 2008.]]></body>
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