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Aristophanes: Ecclesiazusae
Aristophanes
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Description for Aristophanes: Ecclesiazusae
Paperback. Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and farce, the earliest surviving work in the western Utopian tradition, and the source of a blueprint for a communist society on which Plato may well have drawn in his Republic. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DD; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 352.
Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and farce, the earliest surviving work in the western Utopian tradition, and the source of a blueprint for a communist society on which Plato may well have drawn in his Republic. This edition attempts to set the play, more closely than has usually been done, against the political background at the time of its production, when Athens has just spurned what proved to be the last opportunity to escape from a war it did not have the resources to fight, and to define ... Read more
Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and farce, the earliest surviving work in the western Utopian tradition, and the source of a blueprint for a communist society on which Plato may well have drawn in his Republic. This edition attempts to set the play, more closely than has usually been done, against the political background at the time of its production, when Athens has just spurned what proved to be the last opportunity to escape from a war it did not have the resources to fight, and to define ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856687082
SKU
V9780856687082
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About Aristophanes
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Aristophanes: Ecclesiazusae
‘All in all, this book is a great source of knowledge and will be very helpful for anyone who studies Ecclesiazusae.’ Classical Review ‘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 ... Read more