Product Description: For eight centuries after his death Menander was the third most popular poet in the Greek-speaking world, and his plays, through Roman imitations and adaptations, engendered a tradition of European light drama that extends to our own day...read more

Product Description: The comedies of the Athenian dramatist Menander (c. 342-291 BC) and his contemporaries were the ultimate source of a Western tradition of light drama that has continued to the present day. Yet for over a millennium, Menander’s own plays were thought to have been completely lost...read more

Product Description: Following the volume of six fragmentary Sophoclean tragedies published in this series in 2006, Alan Sommerstein and Thomas Talboy now present seven more.

Product Description: This book brings together fourteen studies by Alan Sommerstein on Aristophanes and his fellow comic dramatists, some of which have not previously appeared in print. The studies cover almost all the major topics of Sommerstein's work - the nature and functions of comedy in Aristophanes' time, its connections with the society and politics of its day, the question of Aristophanes' own political stances, the light comedy can throw on classical Athenians' perception of basic social divisions (age, gender, citizen/alien, free/slave), comedy's exploitation of the expressive resources of the Greek language, the composition and production history of individual plays, and the history of the genre as a whole...read more

Product Description: The Athenian tragic dramatist Sophocles wrote over 120 plays in his sixty-year career, of which only seven have survived complete. This volume presents what is known, or can be inferred or conjectured, about half a dozen plays known to us only from quotations, indirect references, and occasionally a papyrus...read more

Product Description: The Journal of Wetland Archaeology is the journal of the Wetland Archaeological Research Project (WARP) and the University of Exeter Centre for Wetland Research. Contents: The dendrochronological dating of timber crossings in West Jutland, Denmark (Daly); Landscapes of failure: the archaeology of flooded wetlands in south and east England (Gardiner and Hartwell); The formation of tells in the Lower Danube wetlands (Gheorghiu); Outcome determines treatment: An approach to the treatment of waterlogged wood (Grattan, Bilz, Grant and Logan); The importance of analysing waterlogged wooden artefacts and environmental conditions when considering their in situ preservation (Gregory and Jensen); evaluation (Plunkett and Foley); Where are the non-human bog bodies? (Wilkinson, O'Regan and Clare)...read more

In Lysistrata and The Archarnians, politics as usual takes a backseat to the machinations of, respectively, a group of women and a single peasant, while The clouds takes satiric aim at the philosophers of Athens. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This volume completes the twelve-volume series The Comedies of Aristophanes , begun in 1980, and is comprised of comprehensive indexes to the preceding eleven volumes. The book is divided into three parts: I Texts and Passages, II Persons, and III General.

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Product Description: This volume is the first edition with commentary since 1907 of AristophanesÆ last surviving play, in which, as so often before, an audacious and imaginative hero finds a miraculous remedy for the all-too-real ills of the contemporary worldùin this case the concentration of wealth in the hands of those who donÆt deserve it at the expense of those who do...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and farce, the earliest surviving work in the western Utopian tradition, and the source of a blueprint for a communist society on which Plato may well have drawn in his Republic...read more

Product Description: Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophonic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and farce, the earliest surviving work in the western Utopian tradition, and the source of a blueprint for a communist society on which Plato may well have drawn in his Republic...read more

Product Description: Aristophanes' Frogs was produced in 405 BC, shortly after the deaths of the two great veteran Athenian tragic dramatists Euripides and Sophocles; it was restaged a year later, a few weeks before starving Athens at last accepted defeat in the long Peloponnesian War...read more

(Aris and Phillips 1994)

Product Description: Clouds is a partly revised version of a play that failed when it was first produced. It has always fascinated (and usually shocked) students of philosophy because of its portrayal of Socrates as an atheist and a teacher of dishonest rhetoric, justly punished by the agents of the gods whom he refuses to recognise...read more

Product Description: Aristophanes great anti-war drama, with comedic overtones, glorifies the power of fertility in the face of destruction. Plays for Performance Series.