OPEN A BOOK,OPEN THE WORLD
作者：Aristophanes/ Poochigian, Aaron
出版社：Norton
年份：2021
ISBN：9780393870831
書號：30260450
裝訂：平裝
定價：$331
優惠價：$314元
《呂西斯特拉忒》阿里斯托芬 希臘喜劇
為促使伯羅奔尼撒戰爭結束，Lysistrata說服女性發起性罷工，拒絕與男性行房，企圖使他們進行談判，但結果卻演變成兩性間的戰爭。
Lysistrata的角色被某些人視為女性主義的先驅，但她卻以如同傳統男性的言行舉止來控制女性達成自己的目的，劇中也不乏對於女性的刻板印象的描述。古希臘雖被視為民主的起源，但在當時的社會存在著龐大的奴隸人口。而在劇中戰爭圓滿落幕之後，不論男女，奴隸階層的處境任何的變化。
現今的譯者鮮少有人能展現Aristophanes在寫作上的精湛技藝，或嘗試重現作品的格律。但Aaron Poochigan不僅再現了作品的多重格律，也為Aristophanes筆下的角色及情境注入了生命力。
“Aristophanes was a funny, often obscene social commentator, and he was also a brilliantly fluent, wide-ranging poet, whose lyric rhythms were recited and sung to music, with dancing. It’s very rare for modern translators to convey his poetic virtuosity or make any attempt to bring his meters to life. But Aaron Poochigan has achieved this feat, crafting polymetric translations that convey the whole range of Aristophanes’ larger-than-life characters and provocative, alternative reality scenarios. This new translation is zany, sharp, inventive, vivacious, and surprisingly relevant for our times.” (Emily Wilson, translator of Homer’s Odyssey)
