aristophanes

This edition of the play brings it up to date in terms of the advances made in Aristophanic scholarship in the past 60 years. It reports on manuscript

Produced in 405 BC, Frogs contains the earliest sustained piece of literary criticism in the Western tradition - the contest for the throne of traged

'No matter which way you look at us, you'll find that we're in all respects; Remarkably wasp-like in our habits, in every aspect of our lives.' Ari

Aristophanes of Athens (c 446-386 BC) is considered one of the world's greatest comic dramatists. He wrote 40 plays, 11 of which have survived complet

The eleven plays by Aristophanes that have come down to us describe the period spanned by his forty-year career, beginning with the first production i

This is the first complete verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies to appear for more than twenty-five years and makes freshly available one of th