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Aristophanis comoediae; recognoverunt brevique adnotatione critica instruxerunt F.W. Hall [et] W.M. Geldart - Community Reviews back

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Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it 11 years ago
Aristophanes is the great comic playwright of Ancient Greece, and set the standard and form of comedy in the Western World. Moreover, his plays are often cited in discussions of what ordinary life was like in the city of Athens in the times of Socrates. No less a figure than Plato accused Aristophan...
janeg
janeg rated it 13 years ago
He is a classist snob with a touch of xenophobia but his stuff is damn good.
Reading Adler's List
Reading Adler's List rated it 16 years ago
What I appreciated most about this version of Aristophanes was the effort gone into the translation by Paul Roche. The Introduction briefly lays out Roche's difficulties in maintaining the subtilties from a polysyllabic language into one seldomly so. His attempt to faithfully translate the Greek r...
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