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Aristophanes: Frogs

Aristophanes: Frogs

Sommerstein, Alan H.
Sommerstein, Alan H.

Paperback

Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts

Ancient GreeceFiction AnthologiesPlays

ISBN10: 0856686484
ISBN13: 9780856686481
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Jan 1 1997
Pages: 313
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.12 Depth: 8.46
Language: English

Aristophanes' Frogs was produced in 405 BC, shortly after the deaths of the two great veteran Athenian tragic dramatists, Euripides and Sophocles. It was restaged a year later, a few weeks before starving Athens at last accepted defeat in the long Peloponnesian War. Dionysus, the god of drama, wine and joyful celebration, goes down to the underworld to bring his favourite poet, Euripides, back from the dead, and surprises both himself and the audience by bringing back instead Aeschylus, who had died fifty years before, with the mission of saving both Athens and Tragedy from ruin. The contest for the throne of tragedy between Euripides and Aeschylus is the earliest sustained piece of literary criticism in the Western tradition. This edition is the first to combine a reliable English translation of Frogs with a full explanatory commentary; it also includes a freshly constituted Greek text. [Greek text with facing-page translation, commentary and notes.]

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