The Eleven Comedies (Complete)
The Clouds, Lysistrata, Peace, The Acharnians, The Knights
The Clouds, Lysistrata, Peace, The Acharnians, The Knights
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781406806014 (1406806013)
Publish date: August 1st 2006
Publisher: Echo Library
Pages no: 420
Edition language: English
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...
He is a classist snob with a touch of xenophobia but his stuff is damn good.
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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