Author: ARISTOPHANES; WILLIAM ARROWSMITH & RICHMOND LATTIMORE
Title: Four Plays By Aristophanes the Birds; the Clouds; the Frogs; Lysistrata
Description: Penguin Publishing Group, 1994. Softcover. ISBN: 0452007178. Minor wear to a couple of corners of wraps. Pages a bit tanned. ; Meridian Classics; 5.3125 X 1.41 X 8 inches; 619 pages; The first new edition in almost sixty years, this volume of Aristophanes' Lysistrata brings the play completely up to date with modern scholarship. It provides the first complete account of its history and contains new information about the comic theater and its social and political context. Lysistrata not only brims with topical references to social life, religion, and politics in classical Athens; it is also one of our best sources for information on the life of women in antiquity, offering a unique glimpse of their everyday life.. Very Good .

Keywords: 0452007178 Women's Studies Aristophanes Comedy Plays & Drama Greek Literature


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