The Comedies of Aristophanes, 2 vols.
A two volume collection of the Comedies of Aristophanes. Vol. 1 contains The Archanians, Knights, Clouds, Wasps, Peace, and Birds. Vol. 2 contains Lysistrata, The Thesmophoriazusae, Frogs, Ecclesiazusae, and Plutus.
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- Author: Aristophanes
- Translator: William James Hicke
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The Comedies of Aristophanes, a new and literal translation from the revised text of Dindorf with notes and extracts from the best metrical versions, trans. William James Hicke (London: George Bell and Sons, 1901). 2 vols.
Copyright:
The text is in the public domain.
Members of this set:
Book The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes
Halt Baltussen & Peter Davis
This book examines the origins of censorship and free speech, beginning with early Greek comedy.
Book Brill’s Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy
edited by Gregory W. Dobrov
This companion guide walks through the context, history, and elements of Ancient Greek comedy.
Book The English Works, vol. VIII (The Peloponnesian War Part I)
This historical account tells of the conflict between Sparta and Athens, a war that sparked much of Aristophanes’s comedy.