Birds. Lysistrata. Women at the Thesmophoria
$51.07
- Hardcover
624 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2000
Summary
Aristophanes (ca. 446–386 BCE), 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. In this third volume of a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson presents a freshly edited Greek text and a lively, unexpurgated translation of three plays with full explanatory notes.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674995871 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0674995872 |
| Author: | Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Imprint: | LOEB |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2000 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 108mm x 162mm |
| Series: | Loeb Classical Library |
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Critics Review
Henderson’s sound texts and plain translations give us exactly the Aristophanes we need: a reliable prose waiting to be quickened into poetic life by the reader’s imagination, laughter, and amazement. – Donald Lyons * New Criterion *
This is an important edition of a major Greek author and an absolute ‘must-buy’ for all college and university libraries. – S. Douglas Olson * Classical World *
Henderson’s translation keeps close to the Greek, but successfully manages to indicate something of Aristophanes’ linguistic diversity; it has been carried off with admirable crispness… A highly welcome addition to the Loeb Library. – Stephen Halliwell * Greece and Rome *
Aristophanes
Jeffrey Henderson is William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Language and Literature, Emeritus, at Boston University.
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