Overview

Thesmophoriazusae is perhaps the funniest of all Aristophanes' comedies, in which gender inversion and transvestism run riot as the tragic dramatist Euripides is made to take part in a hilarious spoof on some of his own favourite plot lines, with his own life at stake as well as that of his loyal and much-put-upon old relative. This edition offers a freshly constituted text making use of papyri published within the last few years, together with the first fully annotated English translation there has been of this play.

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Author:   Alan H. Sommerstein (Department of Classics, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom)) ,  Alan H. Sommerstein
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Aris & Phillips Ltd
Edition:   First published in the United Kingdom in 1994. Reprinted with addenda in 2013. Reprinted in 2015.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.449kg
ISBN:  

9780856685590

ISBN 10:   0856685593
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   01 April 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

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`For an overall series of the entire corpus, including critical text, commentary, translation, and full introduction, all subsumed to one man's intelligent analysis and wide-ranging scholarship, Sommerstein stands triumphantly alone. [...] Aristophanes is lucky to have so devoted, erudite, and witty a modern celebrant.' Scholia

Author Information

Alan H Sommerstein is Professor of Greek and Director of the Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception, University of Nottingham; editor of the Aristophanes volumes in the Aris PHIllips Classical Texts series and of Aeschylus Eumenides (Cambridge, 1989); author of Aeschylean Tragedy (Bari, 1996) and of Greek Drama and Dramatists (London, 2002); co-editor of Tragedy, Comedy and the Polis (Bari, 1993), Shards from Kolonos: Studies in Sophoclean Fragments (Bari, forthcoming) and several other multi-author volumes. He is coordinating a collaborative edition of selected fragmentary plays of Sophocles for this series.

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