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Aristophanes: Thesmophoriazusae Edited and Alan H. Sommerstein (Department of Classics, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom))

Aristophanes: Thesmophoriazusae By Edited and  Alan H. Sommerstein (Department of Classics, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom))

Summary

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. This edition, updated in 2013, presents the Greek text with facing-page translation, commentary and notes.

Aristophanes: Thesmophoriazusae Summary

Aristophanes: Thesmophoriazusae by Edited and Alan H. Sommerstein (Department of Classics, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom))

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 recently published papyri, together with the first fully annotated English translation there has been of this play. The volume presents the original Greek text with facing-page translation, commentary and notes.

Aristophanes: Thesmophoriazusae Reviews

For an overall series of the entire corpus, including critical text, commentary, translation, and full introduction, all subsumed to one mans intelligent analysis and wide-ranging scholarship, Sommerstein stands triumphantly alone. [] Aristophanes is lucky to have so devoted, erudite, and witty a modern celebrant.
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About Edited and Alan H. Sommerstein (Department of Classics, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom))

Alan H. Sommerstein is Professor of Greek and Director for Ancient Drama and its Reception, University of Nottingham, and editor of a celebrated complete edition of Aristophanes volumes in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series. His many other publications include Aeschylean Tragedy (1996), an edition of Aeschylus Eumenides (1989), Greek Drama and Dramatists (2002) and Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays Volumes 1 and 2 (2006, 2011) in this series.

Table of Contents

PREFACE
References and Abbreviations
a. Collections of Fragments
b. Abbreviations: Ancient Authors and Works
c. Abbreviations: Modern Authors and Publications
d. Metrical Symbols
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
Select Bibliography
Note on the Text
Sigla
Dramatis Personae
THESMOPHORIAZUSAE
Text and Translation
CRITICAL APPARATUS
COMMENTARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ADDENDA

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Aristophanes: Thesmophoriazusae by Edited and Alan H. Sommerstein (Department of Classics, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom))
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Liverpool University Press
1994-04-01
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