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Aristophanes: The Eleven Comedies
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9781503378339 | details & prices | 288 pages | 8.00 × 10.00 × 0.65 in. | List price $8.95
About: AristophanesThe Eleven ComediesVolume 1With Text and NotesSTUDENT STUDY EDITIONCONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUMETranslator's ForewordAuthoritiesTHE KNIGHTS – Introduction, Text and NotesTHE ACHARNIANS – Introduction, Text and NotesPEACE – Introduction, Text and NotesLYSISTRATA – Introduction, Text and NotesTHE CLOUDS – Introduction, Text and NotesLiterally and Completely Translated from the GreekWith Translator's Foreword An Introduction To Each Comedy And ElucidatoryThe First of Two VolumesThe eleven plays, all that have come down to us out of a total of over forty staged by our author in the course of his long career, deal with the events of the day, the incidents and personages of contemporary Athenian city life, playing freely over the surface of things familiar to the audience and naturally provoking their interest and rousing their prejudices, dealing with contemporary local gossip, contemporary art and literature, and above all contemporary politics, domestic and foreign.
from Createspace Independent Pub (November 24, 2014)
9781503378483 | details & prices | 322 pages | 8.00 × 10.00 × 0.73 in. | List price $9.95
About: AristophanesThe Eleven ComediesVolume 2STUDENT STUDY EDITIONWith Text and NotesCONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUMETHE WASPS – Introduction, Text and NotesTHE BIRDS – Introduction, Text and NotesTHE FROGS – Introduction, Text and NotesTHE THESMOPHORIAZUSAE – Introduction, Text and NotesTHE ECCLESIAZUSAE – Introduction, Text and NotesPLUTUS – Introduction, Text and NotesLiterally and Completely Translated from the GreekWith Translator's Foreword an Introduction to Each Comedy and ElucidatoryThe Second of Two VolumesThe eleven plays, all that have come down to us out of a total of over forty staged by our author in the course of his long career, deal with the events of the day, the incidents and personages of contemporary Athenian city life, playing freely over the surface of things familiar to the audience and naturally provoking their interest and rousing their prejudices, dealing with contemporary local gossip, contemporary art and literature, and above all contemporary politics, domestic and foreign.