Aristophanes: Wasps (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts) - Softcover

Aristophanes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0856682136 ISBN 13: 9780856682131

Verlag: Aris & Phillips Ltd, 1983

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Sommerstein Alan H

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`For an overall series of the entire corpus, including critical text, commentary, translation, and full introduction, all subsumed to one man's intelligent analysis and wide-ranging scholarship, Sommerstein stands triumphantly alone. [...] Aristophanes is lucky to have so devoted, erudite, and witty a modern celebrant.' Scholia

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Wasps was first produced at the Lenaea festival of 422 BC. The play is at once a political satire and also, like Clouds and the lost Banqueters, a comedy on the theme of the conflict of generations. The play follows the efforts of a mischievous and mercurial old man to escape the control of a stern and heavy son. In its political aspect it attacks the leading Athenian politician Cleon, as Knights had. But Wasps represents a departure as it concentrates less on Cleon personally, and more on his and his associates' alleged domination of the law courts and the men who served in them as jurors. First published in 1983, this edition contains addenda and a new bibliography. Greek text with facing-page English translation, commentary and notes.

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• Verlag: Aris & Phillips Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0856682136
• ISBN 13: 9780856682131
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280