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Aristophanes: Lysistrata (Comedies of Aristophanes) (Ancient Greek Edition)
Aristophanes
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Description for Aristophanes: Lysistrata (Comedies of Aristophanes) (Ancient Greek Edition)
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
Lysistrata is the third and last of Aristophanes' peace plays. It is a dream of peace, of how the women could help to achieve an honourable settlement, conceived when Athens was going through its blackest, most desperate crisis since the Persian War. Though in modern times this is perhaps the most popular of his works, it has never before had an English translation that aims to be reliable in detail and that is fully annotated. The Greek text is based on a fuller body of evidence than any previous edition. It is astonishing to think that this play was first ... Read more
Lysistrata is the third and last of Aristophanes' peace plays. It is a dream of peace, of how the women could help to achieve an honourable settlement, conceived when Athens was going through its blackest, most desperate crisis since the Persian War. Though in modern times this is perhaps the most popular of his works, it has never before had an English translation that aims to be reliable in detail and that is fully annotated. The Greek text is based on a fuller body of evidence than any previous edition. It is astonishing to think that this play was first ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Aris & Phillips
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
Condition
New
Weight
358g
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856684586
SKU
V9780856684586
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About Aristophanes
Alan H. Sommerstein is Professor of Greek and Director for Ancient Drama and its Reception, University of Nottingham, and editor of the celebrated complete edition of Aristophanes volumes in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series. His many other publications include Aeschylean Tragedy (1996), an edition of Aeschylus Eumenides (1989), Greek Drama and Dramatists (2002) and Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays ... Read more
Reviews for Aristophanes: Lysistrata (Comedies of Aristophanes) (Ancient Greek Edition)
`The scholarship and broad appeal of Sommerstein's Lysistrata will commend it to individuals and libraries alike.' Classical World