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Format: Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 608
Utgivningsdatum: 2002-05-01
Upplaga: Annotated ed
Förlag: LOEB
Översättare: Jeffrey Henderson
Originalspråk: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Medarbetare: Henderson, Jeffrey (ed. & transl.)
Illustrationer: Index
Volymtitel: WITH Assemblywoman AND Wealth
Dimensioner: 164 x 110 x 29 mm
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Antal komponenter: 1
Komponenter: v. <1-4 > ;
ISBN: 9780674995963

Frogs. Assemblywomen. Wealth

Frogs, Assemblywomen, Wealth

av Aristophanes

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002-05-01

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Aristophanes, 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. This is the fourth and final volume in the new Loeb Classical Library edition of his plays. Frogs was produced in 405 BCE, shortly after the deaths of Sophocles and Euripides. Dionysus, the patron god of theater, journeys to the underworld to retrieve Euripides. There he is recruited to judge a contest between the traditional Aeschylus and the modern Euripides, a contest that yields both sparkling comedy and insight on ancient literary taste. In Assemblywomen, Athenian women plot to save Athens from male misgovernance. They transfer power to themselves and institute a new social order in which all inequalities based on wealth, age, and beauty are eliminated-with raucously comical results. The gentle humor and straightforward morality of Wealth made it the most popular of Aristophanes's plays from classical times to the Renaissance. Here the god Wealth is cured of his blindness; his newfound ability to distinguish good people from bad brings playfully portrayed social consequences.

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As with the three previous volumes, Henderson has edited the Greek text anew, and provided a useful and lively translation. Each play features a general introduction containing a plot summary and discussion of major themes, a note on the text, and a list of major annotated editions...In just over four years Henderson has edited and translated the four volumes of the new Loeb edition of Aristophanes. Every volume is well edited, succinctly annotated, and so translated as to engage the reader in the humor and seriousness of the comedies. It is likely there will be more readers studying Aristophanes rather than fewer ones with the publication of this final volume. -- Carl Anderson * Scholia Reviews *

Jeffrey Henderson is William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Boston University.