Aristophanes: Birds, Lysistrata, Assembly-Women, Wealth

by Stephen Halliwell and Aristophanes

This new verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies offers one of the world's great comic dramatists in a form which is both historically faithful and theatrically vigorous. Aristophanes' plays were produced for the festival theatre of classical Athens in the fifth century BC and remarkably encompass the whole gamut of humor, from brilliantly inventive fantasy to obscene vulgarity. There is a substantial general introduction to the author and introductory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019814993X
• ISBN13: 9780198149934
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"