Birds: Student Edition: Greek Text, with Introduction and Commentary
by:
Aristophanes (author)
Nan Dunbar (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780198721789 (0198721781)
Publish date: February 28th 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages no: 560
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Humor,
Comedy,
Humanities,
Literature,
Cultural,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Poetry,
Greece,
Classical Studies
The important thing to note about this review is that I'm reading the version of the Birds that's subtitled "A Modern Translation by William Arrowsmith." If you read a translation by someone else it's likely you'll have a different experience - but then, a lot of your enjoyment of Aristophanes will ...
Nephelococcygia, a metropolis in air,Zeus' cloudy nightmare,Unlikely a bedroom scareFrom a sparrow’s wild rare.A respite between heaven and earth,“An avian heaven”, says Pisthetaerus, Flirting with the nightingale’s mirthHoopoe consents ; what a fucking putz!Sacred chants float over the lustral wate...
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