Overview :Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and farce, the earlie... Read More
Overview :In the first play he produced on his own behalf, Aristophanes launched a violent attack on Cleon, the leading politician of the day, on the ... Read More
Overview :Aristophanes' Frogs was produced in 405 BC, shortly after the deaths of the two great veteran Athenian tragic dramatists, Euripides and Soph... Read More
Overview :Clouds is a partly revised version of a play that failed when it was first produced. It has always fascinated (and usually shocked) students... Read More
Overview :Clouds is a partly revised version of a play that failed when it was first produced. It has always fascinated (and usually shocked) students... Read More
Overview :This volume completes the twelve-volume series The Comedies of Aristophanes, begun in 1980, and is comprised of comprehensive indexes to the... Read More
Overview :Many of the themes of Aeschylus' Suppliants - the treatment of refugees, forced marriage, ethnic and cultural clashes, decisions on war and ... Read More
Overview :This volume is the first edition with commentary since 1907 of Aristophanes' last surviving play, in which, as so often before, an audacious... Read More
Overview :This book brings together fourteen studies by Alan Sommerstein on Aristophanes and his fellow comic dramatists, some of which have not previ... Read More