Aristophanes: Thesmophoriazusae by Alan H Sommerstein )

Aristophanes: Thesmophoriazusae by Alan H Sommerstein )

Thesmophoriazusae is perhaps the funniest of all Aristophanes’ comedies, in which gender inversion and transvestism run riot as the tragic dramatist Euripides is made to take part in a hilarious spoof on some of his own favourite plot lines, with his own life at stake as well as that of his loyal and much-put-upon old relative. This edition offers a freshly constituted text making use of recently published papyri, together with the first fully annotated English translation there has been of this play. The volume presents the original Greek text with facing-page translation, commentary and notes.

‘For an overall series of the entire corpus, including critical text, commentary, translation, and full introduction, all subsumed to one man’s intelligent analysis and wide-ranging scholarship, Sommerstein stands triumphantly alone[…] Aristophanes is lucky to have so devoted, erudite, and witty a modern celebrant.’
Scholia

Alan H. Sommerstein is Professor of Greek and Director for Ancient Drama and its Reception, University of Nottingham, and editor of a celebrated complete edition of Aristophanes volumes in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series. His many other publications include Aeschylean Tragedy (1996), an edition of Aeschylus Eumenides (1989), Greek Drama and Dramatists (2002) and Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays Volumes 1 and 2 (2006, 2011) in this series.

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ISBN 13	9780856685590
ISBN 10	0856685593
Title	Aristophanes: Thesmophoriazusae
Author	Alan H Sommerstein
Series	Aris And Phillips Classical Texts
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Liverpool University Press
Year published	1994-04-01
Number of pages	278
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