The Persians and Other Plays is a collection of plays and commentary about plays by Aeschylus (525/4 - 456 BCE). The book contains the following: The Persians Seven Against Thebes The Suppliants Prometheus Bound Each play comes with a thorough introduction of the play itself as well as detail...
Lysistrata For me the least funny but most interesting of the three plays in this volume. It's full of the same sexual humour as the others and equally preposterous. It's examination of sexual politics is more interesting than its plea for peace with Sparta (perhaps partly because the latter is tr...
ChronologyIntroduction & NotesFurther ReadingTranslator's NoteNote on the TextPreface to The Acharnians--The AcharniansPreface to The Clouds--The CloudsPreface to Lysistrata--LysistrataNotes
I'm slowly working my way through the Ancient Greek play writes and I have read Aeschylus and Sophocles but not Euripides. Aristophanes is my first comedic Greek play write and likely to be my last because he is the only one that survives. This volume contains Lysistrata, The Archanians and the Cl...
I have now decided that I will also write a commentary on the three plays as a whole considering that the Oresteia appears to be more like a three act play than three separate plays joined together with a common theme. There are a number of things that I would like to talk about in relation to the O...
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Sophocles: Fragmentary Plays I - Alan H....
Oath and State in Ancient Greece - Alan ...
Modern Phonology - Alan H. Sommerstein
Talking about Laughter: And Other Studie...
Menander in Contexts (Routledge Monograp...
The Sound Pattern Of Ancient Greek - Ala...
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