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| Other uniform titles: | Aristophanes. Works. Selections. 1998.
Aristophanes. Works. Selections. English. 1998.
Henderson, Jeffrey, 1946-
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| ISBN: | 0674995678
9780674995673
0674995376
9780674995376
0674995872
9780674995871
0674995961
9780674995963
0674996151
9780674996151
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English and Greek on facing pages.
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| Summary: | Aristophanes of Athens (ca. 446- 386BC), one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and political life of Athens at its height. He wrote at least forty plays, of which eleven have survived complete. In this new Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson presents a freshly edited Greek text and a lively unexpurgated translation with full explanatory notes. Three plays are in Volume II of the new edition. Socrates' "Thinkery" is at the center of Clouds, which spoofs untraditional techniques for educating young men. Wasps satirizes Athenian enthusiasm for jury service and the law courts as well as the city's susceptibility to demagogues. In Peace, a rollicking attack on war-makers, the farmer-hero makes his famous trip to heaven on a dung beetle to discuss the issues with Zeus.
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| Other form: | Online version: Aristophanes. Works. English & Greek. 1998. Aristophanes. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998-2007
Online version: Aristophanes. Works. English & Greek. 1998. Aristophanes. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998-2007
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