Aristophanes: Birds, Lysistrata, Assembly-Women, Wealth (Oxford World's Classics) [Hardcover]

Aristophanes (Author), Stephen Halliwell (Translator, Introduction)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 4, 1997 | ISBN-10: 019814993X | ISBN-13: 978-0198149934 | Edition: 1st

This new verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies offers one of the world's great comic dramatists in a form which is both historically faithful and theatrically vigorous. Aristophanes' plays were produced for the festival theatre of classical Athens in the fifth century BC and remarkably encompass the whole gamut of humor, from brilliantly inventive fantasy to obscene vulgarity. There is a substantial general introduction to the author and introductory essays for each of the plays, as well as full explanatory notes and an index of names.

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`The translation is accurate enough to be usable for any academic or educational purpose for which the use of translations is acceptable at all ... H.'s select bibliography (in English only) is an excellent guide for those wishing to study Ar. more deeply than the plan of htis series allows.' Alan H. Sommerstein, The Classical Review

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Greek --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 297 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York; 1st edition (December 4, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 019814993X
• ISBN-13: 978-0198149934
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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