Clouds. Wasps. Peace, New edition Edition, 9780674995376
Hardcover
Ancient Athenian satire: Socrates, wasps, and a dung beetle to heaven!

Clouds. Wasps. Peace, New edition Edition

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  • Hardcover

    624 pages

  • Release Date

    14 December 1998

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Summary

Aristophanes of Athens (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. 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 tra…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780674995376
ISBN-10:0674995376
Author:Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Imprint:LOEB
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:624
Edition:New edition
Release Date:14 December 1998
Weight:431g
Dimensions:162mm x 108mm x 28mm
Series:Loeb Classical Library
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Critics Review

Jeffrey Henderson, who may fairly be considered the leading Aristophanic scholar in North America, has… provided us with both a useful text and idiomatic… translation. It is certainly a work that scholars may use with confidence and may recommend to their students for consultation and, yes, for help with translation… [I] found it more accurate for translation purposes than Henderson’s Focus translation or Sommerstein’s Penguin… I found Henderson’s notes uniformly admirable, alerting us with all sorts of necessary information… Henderson has done a very great service in bringing both the text and the antique translations of Rogers up to date. This second volume in the Loeb lives up to the high standards of its predecessor, and we look forward to those to come. – Ian C. Storey * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

About The Author

Aristophanes

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

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