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Aristophanes: Frogs

Aristophanes: Frogs

Paperback

Series: Greek Texts

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral PoetryPlays

ISBN10: 0862921155
ISBN13: 9780862921156
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jun 1 1991
Pages: 271
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.34
Language: English

Aristophanes' sophisticated comedy on the style and role of the plays of the modern Euripides vis a vis the traditional Aeschylus, contains his most brilliant parodies. These are asset in the fantastic and farcical context of Dionysus, disguised as Herakles, with his memorably cheeky slave Xanthias, descending into Hades to resurrect Euripides but returning instead with Aeschylus.

Stanford's edition of Frogs includes introduction, Greek text and commentary. It contains a substantial introduction on the play's background, and interpretation. The commentary is detailed on matters of language, metre and content, and a bibliography of further reading is provided.

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