Frogs
by Aristophanes
Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature in general. It merits a much more extensive commentary than it has so far received, for the establishment of the text itself has rested for over a century on collations which were inadequate and inaccurate. At the same time, its most problematic passages have been the subject, in recent years, of more scholarly articles than those of any other Greek play. In this i…
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- Full title :Frogs / Aristophanes ; edited with introduction and commentary by Kenneth Dover.
Summary
Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature in general. It merits a much more extensive commentary than it has so far received, for the establishment of the text itself has rested for over a century on collations which were inadequate and inaccurate. At the same time, its most problematic passages have been the subject, in recent years, of more scholarly articles than those of any other Greek play.
In this introduction, edition, and commentary, Sir Kenneth Dover presents the relevant data, arguments, and considerations as fully as can reasonably be done in one volume.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:1993.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1993.
Notes
Text of Frogs (p. [119]-190) in the original Greek; introduction (p. [1]-106) and commentary (p. [191]-384) in English.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvi, 398 pages ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0198147732, 9780198147732, 0198150059, 9780198150053
- oclc:ocm25707476
- LC Classification:PA3875
- Dewey Decimal:882/.01
Table of Contents
I. Aristophanes. II. Composition and Structure of the Play. III. The Contest of Aeschylus and Euripides. 1. The Issues. 2. Literary Criticism and Popular Culture. IV. Dionysos. V. Xanthias. VI. The Doorkeeper of the Underworld. VII. The Choruses. VIII. Politics. IX. History of the Text. 1. Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts. 2. Ancient Commentators. 3. Indirect Tradition. X. Production -- Metrical Symbols -- Sigla Codicum -- Hypotheses -- Dramatis Personae -- Text -- Commentary.
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