Description: Aristophanes and Athens : An Introduction to the Plays, Hardcover by MacDowell, Douglas M., ISBN 0198721587, ISBN-13 9780198721581, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book provides an accessible introduction to each of Aristophanes' plays, focusing particularly on their relationship to Athenian politics and life, and to the effect that Aristophanes hoped to have on his audience. All passages quoted from them are given in new verse translations, and readers do not need any knowledge of Greek. But scholarly problems are not ignored, and specialists will find here both new suggestions and summaries of different interpretations with recent bibliographical information in the notes.
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Book Title: Aristophanes and Athens : An Introduction to the Plays
Number of Pages: 376 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Aristophanes and Athens : an Introduction to the Plays
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 1.1 in
Subject: Drama, Ancient & Classical
Publication Year: 1995
Item Weight: 20.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.6 in
Author: Douglas M. Macdowell
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Hardcover