Aristophanes: Frogs Revised Edition Contributor(s): Sommerstein, Alan H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0856686484 ISBN-13: 9780856686481 Publisher: Liverpool University Press OUR PRICE: $38.12 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1997 Annotation: This volume of the useful Sommerstein editions of Aristophanes plays this provides the text with facing translation, commentary, and an introduction which explains the political background and discusses the play itself and its reception. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Drama | Ancient & Classical - History | Ancient - Greece - Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval |
Dewey: 882.01 |
Lexile Measure: 1070 |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.12" W x 8.46" (1.11 lbs) 320 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |